Word: neatness
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...charm has always seemed to lie in its constancy: a neat and fixed formula of short stories, criticism, cartoons and articles, many of them serious, most of them current, all of them finely polished. Over the course of 60 years of independent proprietorship, The New Yorker won an enviably loyal audience along with an honored place on the country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable...
...Supreme Court) was definitive. But in the minds of much of the public, the reality of what happened in Atlanta may more likely be what they saw enacted last week on TV. That was not history, not journalism, but crusading entertainment, with the facts carefully organized to sustain a neat story line and to suit a political point of view: Writer-Producer Abby Mann believes that Williams was railroaded. Responding to local hysteria and national scrutiny, Atlanta officials were, Mann contends, so desperate to close the books on as many as 29 allegedly connected murders that they would have blamed...
Most of the heroes of literature would have been far less heroic. Romeo would have said to Juliet, "You're a neat girl, but I don't think our families are ever going to let us get married. Maybe we should split up." Captain Ahab would have given up whaling and retired to grow petunias in a suburb of New Bedford...
...neat, we know when we step on the ice, from all the practice, we have a chance to score. It motivates...
...with the style, which may be one reason why Souther sounds so good right now. Another, of course, is that he is a very skillful writer whose love songs have both the toughness and the solid sentimentality of film noir. A tune like the title track is a very neat piece of backbeat sleight of hand. It starts out like a celebration of male swagger ("He said goodbye and just walked right out the door"), then turns into a deft bit of deflation ("He looked so good he must have practiced it before"). Songs like this have the grit...