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...Taylor, matchless as the portrayer of the heavy-lideded so phisticate, is as good here as over in the New Yorker. And Pearson's array of phrases and confused translations contains just enough double meanings to make "Fractured French" a real piece do resistance...
Cult Talk from the Colonel. In all this, Hemingway, at his best one of the few great writers of his generation, gives his admirers almost nothing to cheer about. Occasionally, as when he describes a duck shoot, his writing has flashes of its old, matchless exactness. However thin his story, he keeps it in motion and even invests it with a sense of potential explosion, though the explosion never comes off. The famed Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful...
...Large Elderly Men." This new selection of Jane's letters not only sketches such tender, mocking pen portraits of husband Carlyle. Through Jane's matchless eyes, latter-day readers can also watch such scenes as Dickens marvelously playing the role of conjurer at a children's party, or Tennyson taking Jane's hand and "forgetting to let it go again," while murmuring in the trancelike voice of a lotus-eater: "I know that I know you, but I cannot tell your name...
There are no "matchless, magnificent minks" in the Times; they may be "beautiful," but not "matchless." (But the San Francisco News, like many papers, permits superlatives like "best coffee in the world" on the grounds that these are clearly "editorial opinions.") Macy's prices -like Gimbels-are never "unheard of" in the Times; they are "amazingly...
...ordinary rules did not apply. Last week, as the mayoralty campaign heated up, the old man got up at 6 each morning, spent hours bestowing favors, made appearances at football games, banquets, parades and public meetings. Despite his age and ailments, he still managed the mellow eloquence and the matchless gall which had made him the darling of the Boston streets. Though his principal opponents were Irishmen like himself, he spoke as though he were a protector of the people crusading against the Boston Brahmins...