Word: nessness
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...former Marine captain and star blocking back at the University of Wyoming, Neal is not even especially eloquent. His strength is the sine qua non of all great trial lawyers: preparation. During the past months, he has often put in ten-hour days with a single Watergate wit ness, then worked on into the night cross-checking each statement. Neal's concentration is total. After he had spent a long session with John Dean one Sunday in September, Mrs. Dean called to ask about her husband's reaction to the pardon announced by President Ford that morning. "What...
...really heartwarming to read that "there is nothing to be afraid of, and never was." You took the words out of my mouth when you wrote that all our sexual complications are produced by "garbage" people who oppose "sexual turned-on-ness." (I really admire your way with words...
...Magic. Soon after, they begin to pick flaws in each other, to break out into raspy little headachy tiffs. Yet everything seems contained. The we-ness of the marriage web is tenacious even when its strands are mundane realities like dental appointments, plumbing repairs and dinner every Sunday with the in-laws. Then one day Johan tells Marianne that he has fallen in love with a young student in his university seminar and is leaving to be with her. All the blood seems to drain out of Marianne's body. Ullmann even manages to make her lambent sapphire-blue...
...Japanese writers remains somewhat obscure to Western readers despite his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. His fiction seems to be most valued in Japanese for those qualities that are most difficult to render in trans lation: precision and delicacy of image, the shimmer of haiku, an allusive sad ness and minute sense of the impermanence of things...
...disembodied hunter. The color, too, is unique - the broad planes of earth and sky like a flag, interspersed by echoing flecks of red, or ange and yellow on the body of the hare, in the spiral and up on the horizon. Only Matisse could use color with the terse ness, the steady decorative assurance that Miró had achieved by his 35th birthday...