Word: padded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young Sartre in their starkest room--as he is literally placed in the jaws of death. In fact, The War Diaries do touch the heart of existentialism, but with a wonderfully human light more mute in his later works. Many existential experts believe they formed the launching pad for his great work Being and Nothingness. But they are more balanced than the later work, possessing a tone so serene and conversations so casual that it is often easy to forget that existentialism is supposed to be an imposing concept. The balance of the light and heavy is enough to prove...
...transfers Hauptman's work from script to stage with all its virtues and vices intact. Only a jarring transition from city to desert, towards the end of Act I, jars the airy feel of play, set designer Karen Schulz wins low-key kudos for her subtle desert bachelor's pad, and the dry desert backdrops...
Botson, the Times' assistant foreign editor, tries everything to pad his Who's Who biography into a $1495 hardcover offering. He searches for significance in offering. HE searches for significance in Gorbachev's halcyon State Law School, calling him ambitious, active, but not terribly well known. But the best evidence he can muster is the following from two unnamed classmates...
Every 15 or 20 years someone with a note pad and pencil arrives in Sauk Centre, Minn., and asks cosmic questions: How's it goin'? What's the mood? Whither America? These visitations have been going on since 1920, when a native son named Sinclair Lewis published a best-selling satire called Main Street about a town he dubbed Gopher Prairie, which no one ever seriously doubted was inspired by Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into...
This fascination has infected writers, too, prompting them to produce works of fiction in which the unsavory and licentious invades the lives of outwardly respectable people. Noted travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux uses a variation on this theme of a double life as a launching pad for the two novellas that make up Half Moon Street. What follows, however, can by no means be called a smooth flight...