Word: paragraphing
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West is no tattletale. Nothing here to set tongues clucking, despite the author's dutiful one-paragraph references to the sleeping habits of the various presidential couples. (The Eisenhowers were the only pair to share a bedroom, "so I can reach over and pat Ike's old bald head any time I want to," Mamie once explained...
Wright is considered a brilliant teacher who lectures without notes and cites cases from his own books by page and paragraph number from memory. But students complain that he is aloof and suffers from an irresistible urge to drop the grand legal names of the age. When a student once expressed some confusion about a principle of Federalism, Wright replied: "I had some question about that too until I asked Justice Frankfurter about...
...have been the most neatly buried nugget in all that John Dean said. In one brief paragraph of his 245-page testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities last week, Dean dropped an obscure reference to a client of Super-lawyer F. Lee Bailey's who "had an enormous amount of gold" to dispose of. As Dean told the story, the gold had come up during a luncheon conversation he had on March 22 with John Mitchell. What was Bailey up to, and how was Mitchell involved? The story behind Dean's fleeting remark lies...
...Samuel Beckett to Dorothy Parker and E.B. White, from I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby-with some jazzy pianistics as a bonus-to Me and Bobbie McGee. This number, rendered in Williamson's supple and sensitive baritone, is affecting enough to supply an added paragraph to the vocabulary of soul...
...That paragraph stands in the novel a propos of nothing else at all. The two characters appear here for the first time and never appear again--the event passes as quickly as it came. There are hundreds of such vignettes in the book, glimpsed actions, characters scurrying in and out of focus. Pynchon has no great interest in making these fragments cohere; his method is rather to take the loose ends of story and unravel them altogether...