Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author admits in a preface, "longer than I intended, and I foresee that the projected second and last volume -- whose title will probably be You've Had Your Time -- will be as long, if not longer." Shortly after this promise to produce roughly 1,000 pages of printed prose about himself, Burgess introduces his opinion of professional writers: "They are not remarkable people, and if they are novelists they are particularly lacking in interest...
...when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot. The visuals are the pictorial equivalent of Dragnet prose; they offer just the facts, ma'am, but no sizzle, irony or insight. So The Bedroom Window looks like a peculiar tribute to Hitchcock: an exercise in style without the style...
...line: it would have committed the President to push for a constitutional convention to draft a balanced-budget amendment. Reagan rejected both and chose a third draft written by Ken Khachigian, a former White House speechwriter who was called back from California for this effort. Though Khachigian's lyrical prose is well suited to Reagan's natural speech rhythms, the final talk was too familiar and vague to change any minds, in Congress or, apparently, around the country...
M.F.K. (for Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher is the grande dame of American food writers. Her passion for cuisine, conveyed with a novelist's supple prose in 17 books published since 1937, inspired a host of other writers to take up the craft of food criticism. One such is TIME's critic, who recently visited Fisher, now 78, in California's Sonoma Valley. Her report...
Robison's distinctive style of spare, non-florid prose has been labeled "Minimalism" by reviewers. "They're borrowing terms from painting that aren't applicable," Robison complains. "I don't know why they can't think up their own terms...