Word: praiseed
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A column is only about 450 words, and the problem is simply to find the right ones. This takes three or four drafts usually, the first stiff and awkward, "like some English-class essay," and the last chatty and, in a carefully chiseled way, spontaneous. Advice to imitators: to avoid...
During his first stint for Time Inc., as a writer for FORTUNE, Agee was assigned a story that let him weld his overheated rhetoric to a social theme: the lives of '30s sharecroppers in the South, with photographs by Walker Evans. Agee later appraised his own work as "a...
But no matter how far Agee's imagination ranged, he always seemed drawn to the central image of a country road and a wheel spinning and a dapper man stretched out serenely under the stars. It became the obsessive theme of A Death in the Family, his autobiographical novel...
The actors form a flawless ensemble. Hurt, who bears the heaviest weight of words, and Walken, whose character has the softest edges, deserve particular praise. Director Mike Nichols has imposed a shaping dramatic tension on shapeless lives and on a play that is of necessity loosely structured. His uncanny sense...
The battle over how to interpret the Viet Nam War seems to be almost as intractable as the conflict itself. Last year PBS aired a 13-hour series, Viet Nam: A Television History. Despite wide critical praise, the series was at tacked by some conservatives who thought it indulged the...