Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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13. "It has found important new techniques in picture-making and story-telling ... It is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth ... It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people."
14. "With its lost...straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, [this work] can be most variously interpreted--somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant."
15. "[The building] has hit [the city] with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it's there ... You turn a corner, and--pow!--an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver...massively undulating, something that seems...to have been dropped from another cultural world."
16. "Whether or not [he] had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines ... [His] poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended it to."