Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ibiza, he finished his first novel, On a Darkling Plain, which was published in 1956. Since then he has produced three more novels. His nonfiction works were notable for their inaccuracies. His first marriage was annulled; his second wife died in a car crash in 1959, and he divorced his third wife, a London model, in 1965. Four years ago, Irving married Edith Sommer, a Swiss divorcee whose first husband, she says, was a German businessman and something of a "stiff...
...Manchester. He seldom shows up at the Union Leader but phones the paper every day from wherever he happens to be, to "keep track of things" and often to dictate a front-page editorial straight off the cuff. He never writes them out in advance because he feels that "plain talk is more effective...
...second-generation Abstract Expressionist like Pearlstein, Leslie turned to figure painting in the early '60s. His technique as a draftsman is formidable, sharing Pearlstein's plain speech and relentless grip. Your Kindness is an idiosyncratic companion piece to David's famous Death of Marat, with Leslie's wife Constance West dressed as Charlotte Corday and holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac...
Mike: Enjoyed it, hell! I saw you split a gut! The guy is just plain funny-why can't you admit...
Borges' best previous stories were strange, dreamlike fables that cast an oblique, ironic light on the doings of this world. In this latest group, the world is all too much with the author. These are mostly plain, unadorned tales-some harsh, some tender-of love, hate and the inevitability of death. In his preface, Borges admits giving up the "surprises inherent in a baroque style. Now, having passed 70, I believe I have found my own voice." Or is it, he asks himself, only the "fruit of weariness...