Word: narrativeâ
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They weren't the first designer plush dolls, and they probably won't be the last, but a cast of 15 unattractive, ever evolving characters called Uglydolls?each accompanied by a quirky, amusing narrative???have plopped down at the forefront of the designer-toy movement. The dolls' creators, David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, are themselves outsiders in a nearly monopolized corporate toy industry. Their first doll, a snaggle-toothed, apron-donning orange blob named Wage who, the story goes, works at a grocery store and lives for chocolate-chip-cookie dough, was born...
...basic form of TIME journalism was the narrative???chronological narrative when possible. And so it remains. But increasingly, exposition and analysis had to supplement narration. This fact reflects a larger reality. America is an epic of action, but more and more, action is stymied by complexity or conflict. In a sense, America today is less a "story" than an argument...
Never was more melodrama swept between two covers and seldom was it swept so well. Author Dehan's style is his fortune. Tumultuous, it confuses at first, until the long rhythms of a splendid imagination become apparent. Then, sustained overtones rise above the narrative???the bitter self-sufficiency of a betrayed Jew; the long-suffering humanity of a French monk in the wilderness; the earthy mysticism of aborigines who talk from hill to hill with smoke columns, declare war with muttering drums and ululate for a dying god when the sun is eclipsed...
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