Word: lucidities
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...thank goodness we never actually arrived at this imaginary place beyond good and evil, the place where we would not be able even to mark the 'partial, contingent, incremental truths of Moderns, let alone the truths of the Ancients. On Looking into the Abyss is a lucid explanation to those like Paul De Man who, when they looked into the abyss and walked away smiling, should really have wept...
...letting. If tragedy enthralls us with its cathartic resonance, and comedy with the pleasure of averted tragedy, then Colwin must have hoped to seduce us with sheer banality. There's no narrative crescendo, no crisis, no risk of a crisis; in short, no plot. You can revel in the lucid, elegant prose until you're blue in the face, but A Big Storm Knocked It Over constitutes the acid-proof proof that happy stories about happy people makes for unhappy reading...
...hallucinating. Despite intensive care at three different hospitals and the best efforts of doctors to figure out what was wrong, she kept getting worse. She had muscle spasms, salivated uncontrollably and suffered bouts of terror. She recoiled from her mother and father and even her own hair. During one lucid moment the little girl told her parents, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be afraid of you, but I can't help it." On July 11, three days before her 12th birthday, she died with doctors still mystified...
...away from Manhattan, preferring to paint in Southampton and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, which his family owned. This didn't put him out of contact with "the scene." Porter was an exceptionally gifted critic who, in Art News and the Nation, produced some of the most lucid and cant-free essays on modern art in general, and Willem de Kooning's work in particular, ever penned by an American. But he knew his own mind as a painter and needed to be in constant touch with his motifs -- American light, and the stillness of coastal field...
...upcoming TV ads, nerdish lab hounds, supposedly employed by the brewers at Miller, confront button-down corporate types, promoting the "drinkability" of their latest product. With unmistakable shyness they unveil . . . Miller Clear, the new beer that's as clear as water. As the stunned execs peer through a lucid flagon, so amazed that the hair on one turns white, an announcer proclaims, "To make a truly great beer-drinking beer, we had to do just one little thing" -- an innovation by that point transparently obvious...