Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are many aspects of Cornell's imagery which seem fey, precious or backward-looking: the Christmas frosting, bats and moss and dingly dells. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion...
...half-crazed Soviet spy master who spells out his Plan is pure fiction, the creation of Journalists Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used by the Soviet Union to further its propaganda aims. Examples of disinformation-a forged U.S. Army field manual, bogus vice-presidential statements critical of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat-occasionally surface in the Western press...
...last week) 2. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (2) 3. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre (6) 4. The Tenth Commandment, Sanders (3) 5. Fanny, Jong (4) 6. The Bourne Identity, Ludlum (7) 7. Random Winds, Plain (9) 8. The Ninja, Lustbader 9. The Origin, Stone 10. The Spike, De Borchgrave & Moss...
...Borchgrave and Moss argue that the overstressed "Vietnam syndrome" has systematically silenced anyone who dares to question detente and the Soviets' motives-- this is, voices of moderate Republican reason have been shouted down by those who cry McCarthyism. But if the two European journalists were to take a close look at the right in America today, they would probably shed fewer tears. Anti-Soviet rhetoric, increased defense spending and conspiracy theories are de rigueur these days, and Ronald Reagan may ride into office on their public appeal...
...Princess Daisy, Krantz (6) 7. The Ninja, Lustbader (8) 8. The Origin, Stone 9. The Spike, De Borchgrave & Moss (5) 10. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre