Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carver would never bury a sentence like "Suddenly, without warning, blood began gushing from his mouth" in the middle of a lengthy paragraph. Nor would Carver use a phrase like "Suddenly, without warning" in one of his own stories, because, in addition to the dated gentility of the phrase, it is redundant. Furthermore, in his homage to Chekhov, Carver adopts a pace that is not as tight as his own, a pace that surveys each scene with caution and scrutiny before proceeding...
...bureau to Tel Aviv. The attempt, which Socolow balked at, "left a bitter taste" with staffers, who saw it as "an effort to squeeze out of CBS News a respected veteran whose principal sin was a close friendship with Walter Cronkite." Joyce, typically, describes the incident in a short paragraph and gives no inkling of its repercussions...
...sensational rumors reverberated around the country, a Soviet government spokesman admitted to "certain injuries" and even "several" deaths in the southwestern city of Sumgait. The full extent of the carnage was only revealed at week's end, when an anchorman of the national television newscast Vremya read a four-paragraph TASS dispatch in a somber voice. "Criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in robberies," he reported. "They killed 31 people, among them members of various nationalities, old men and women...
...hero to Mikhail Gorbachev, who has dubbed his predecessor's 18-year reign the "era of stagnation." Still, there are reminders of that reign all over the Soviet Union, where everything from an icebreaker to a whole city bears Brezhnev's name. Last week, in a two- paragraph dispatch, the TASS news agency announced that three of those reminders are being eliminated...
...book's biggest failings is the incidental coverage given to the more interesting minor candidates. More should have been written about the candidacy of Melvin H. King, whose campaign invited parallels with the presidential effort of his close associate, Jesse Jackson. Only a single paragraph is devoted to one of the campaign's unsolved puzzles, why King devoted what remained of his predominantly Black districts of Boston...