Word: laconicism
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Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are...
After this laconic beginning, Bishop needs only a prop-a copy of National Geographic-and a small cry of pain from the dentist's chair to create a child's epiphanic moment: "The waiting room was bright/ and too hot. It was sliding/ beneath a big black wave...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE by Georgia O'Keeffe. Unpaged. Viking. $75. There are 108 exacting color plates in this spare, handsome book. The paintings were chosen by the artist, now in her 90th year; many have not been reproduced before. The wonder is that despite their stark eloquence, they...
The magazine is hooked on ladders and sundry hot topics. Novelist James T. Farrell, 72, has contributed a moving story about the 1947 fire that destroyed much of his work-in-progress. Brooklyn Fire Fighter Michael Kearney rates fire helmets. Other stories focus on fire technology, fire medicine and firehouse...
This steady torrent of dialogue creates some awkward moments. Conversations must be disassembled like Chinese boxes: " ' "My ex-wife," he said, "said the same thing," ' Locke said." At moments such as these, talk does indeed seem cheap. For all its laconic wit, The Judgment of Deke Hunter still...