Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worth of ties in his 1967 start-up year, when his entire business fit into one large drawer in a rented space in the Empire State Building. At least one powerful department store, Bloomingdale's, tried to persuade Lauren to make his radical ties narrower. But his novel design became such an instantaneous rage that Bloomingdale's gave in. Before long, retailers were ordering 100 dozen of the young designer's creations at a time...
...Garden of Eden, published this spring, is an odd, interesting ingredient in the Hemingway psychomyth. Hemingway began the novel in early 1946, but it ran away from him, swelling to hundreds of thousands of words. He tried over the years to cut it down and make it manageable, but it was still a mess when he died. An editor at Scribner's pruned the manuscript to a tight and coherent 65,000 words...
Manhunter, based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, is a police procedural with some smart new fangles. The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche. Will is the typical tough-cop hero -- a loner whose awareness of his own checked rages makes him see the killer as his evil twin -- but he is also a decent family man; a supermarket chat with his son, about the bad things bad men do to people, is one of the film's surprise highlights...
...news that a theologian of sorts is the main character in John Updike's twelfth novel will not thrill all of the author's devoted readers, although it should not surprise them either. The Poorhouse Fair (1959), Updike's first % novel, was an allegory explicitly framed around contradictory notions of the nature of God. The author's reputation and fame grew with his extraordinarily graceful and graphic renderings of contemporary manners and mores. Couples (1968), the three Rabbit novels, the two collections of stories about the Jewish writer and malingerer Henry Bech, all present surfaces so intriguing that...
...hard to tell at such moments whether Updike is parading knowledge or satirizing it. Roger's Version may be a novel that only the author's most faithful followers will love at first sight. Newcomers might be advised to start with Rabbit or Bech before tackling this dazzling and sometimes maddening display of talent and erudition: the labor of a serious artist to make comprehensible a mystery that cannot be explained...