Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cynics may reflect: there is no forgiveness for the marvel who writes a brilliant, successful novel, one of those rare, resonant tales that every literate soul burns to read. On pain of universal outrage and derision, the marvel's next book and all succeeding ones must be even grander than the first, and, while precisely the same, also boldly and completely different. Reviewers, who are in charge of outrage and derision--as well as words like resonant--will pout like rejected lovers at anything short of incandescence...
...years since, there's been none better," Harvard Sports Information Director John Veneziano said. "When I first watched games from the press box, I was amazed at the quality of the sight lines and the closeness of the crowd to the action. They call it an engineering marvel; well, it really...
...doesn't look like much of a marvel. If anything, it appears to be just a bunch of ordinary personal computers, a couple of feet high, wired together and left running in a corner. But stored on disks in these machines is an extraordinary medical cornucopia: the details of thousands of heart attacks painstakingly etched into silicon over nearly 30 years. Each spasm, each chemical released into the bloodstream by a dying heart muscle, each patient's treatment, is registered in this giant multivariate database by doctors, nurses and researchers at Duke University. The heart of the Medical Center...
Olga Talyn's version of Madame Giry is another marvel to behold. Her simple presence as well as her voice breathes ominous foreboding, yet perfect control. Lawrence Anderson also gives a wonderful performance as Raoul--strong, yet not too over-powering...
...flows freely in such cases, and it is probably too late to make a strictly literary judgment of the Buru Quartet, whose concluding volume, House of Glass, has just been published in the U.S. by Morrow (365 pages; $26). The view here is that the quartet is indeed a marvel, but especially in its third and fourth volumes an exceedingly slow-moving and discursive marvel. The turbulent and bitterly angry first book, This Earth of Mankind, is the key to the rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this...