Word: prolixity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked back at the outset of the 1981 tour: "Like remote planets revolving in space, the Stones throughout the seventies continued to exert a magnetic pull known in physics as action at a distance. Their own removal from action infused their albums with a diffuse electric, reflective, anomalous and prolix sound...
...fairly intriguing story, though Hoving told it more concisely in The Chase, the Capture, part of a book on collecting policy issued by the Met six years ago. Stretched to this length, it becomes prolix. Le style c'est l'homme, and Hoving's style reflects the character he showed when he was in power at the museum-windy, lapel-grabbing and insincerely populist. The tone is struck in the first sentence: "The vast halls of the Metropolitan . . . were awesomely still." All halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses...
Thank you for confirming what we've long suspected about The New Yorker [Jan. 12]. The occasional chuckle or pleasure experienced in coming upon an engrossing piece does not compensate any longer for the exasperation generated by plowing through all those slick, expensive pages of prolix maunderings. It's very sad, somewhat like losing a bright, witty and interesting companion to stroke and senility...
...into an electric outlet; cables run from the computer along the robot's arm and transmit instructions in the form of electric impulses to the claw; for heavy work, robots use hydraulic pressure. The Robot Institute of America, an industrial trade group, therefore offers a contemporary, if somewhat prolix, definition of a robot: "A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools or specialized devices, through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks...
...Once and Future Marx" is just one brief, though characteristically prolix essay that appears in The Winding Passage, a collection which Bell terms "the essays of a prodigal son." Representing an assortment of his sociological writings from 1960-80, they are also his personal favorites. These essays not only compose an impressive body of knowledge and rhetoric, but also evoke a classical dilemma--the role of the intellectual. While Bell fights, and wins, war in the abstract, his victories seem pyrrhic. By the end of his 17 essays, any reader will beg for a solution to the problems...