Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tsongas tells us throughout Heading Home, this Mr. Smith Leaves Washington tale is not about defeat. It is in the concise prose of Tsongas' narrative, about the lessons of life, about what is important and what...
...before the machine is hooked up and ready for use: the instructions. Many VCR manuals read as if written in a difficult foreign language. Printed in Japan, where most of the VCRS sold in the U.S. are manufactured, and replete with technical jargon, these booklets often contain such impenetrable prose as the following: "Never connect the output of the [recorder] to an antenna or make simultaneous (parallel) antenna and [recorder] connections at the antenna terminals of your receiver...
Lasch lays down this rule only after breaking it for over 230 pages of thoroughly repellent prose...
This is cynical stuff from one of the most "respected" characters in popular fiction. But Puzo knows the mass-market game better than most: Give the angels the good looks, the devils the best lines, and keep the prose cinematic. This element is so strong that the book seems to be only the pupal stage of a story impatient to spread celluloid wings...
...until finally a friendly, energetic Trinidadian nurse takes over and be comes the book's unlikely heroine. For a story of two isolated women, Sheehan's canvas is crowded with lively figures, including Claire's callous sister and a diabolical city administrator. The author's prose is as prosy and readable as Trollope's, and she has written a lion-hearted little book...