Word: jacketing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up (Viking; 327 pages; $24.95) adds up to a stimulating kvetch, a nonfiction Herzog. Like that novel's title character, Bellow shows himself in this collection of essays and criticism to be a great complainer and world worrier. He is, as the Herzog jacket copy described the book's hero 30 years ago, someone who "cannot keep from asking what he calls the 'piercing questions...
...crude parody of itself. At this point it would be preferable -- and more courageous -- to retire it altogether; versions of the design go back to the '20s, so the suit may have run its course. Lagerfeld has also vulgarized the Chanel logo, plastering it large all over accessories and jacket backs...
...they were ready-to-wear clothes with prices accessible to many women. Most of the hell-raising pieces in Byron Lars' young collection are around $300. Anna Sui's are in about the same range. The Ghost line starts at $265 for an outfit. An Anne Klein skirt and jacket costs around $1,300. And, of course, fast, expert rip-offs make the popular styles affordable to anyone who can buy new clothes...
...several achingly small inches, he might so easily had ended the valet's search up and down the closet for Augusta's newest green jacket...
...rituals every so often, each time summoning one of the four elements of tierra, fuego, agua, aire to her, to remind us of her latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like the most simplistic of goddess workshop: "I am she who knows. I am bone woman. I am bird woman...