Word: prose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refined tastes naturally influenced these artists. One might think the draftsmen were obsessed with French high culture, until one remembers that not all artists are happy if they are starving. Details of the teaching, evolution and politics of art and artists alike are recounted in succinct, if not breathtaking, prose. Stylistic languages, frivolous fads and "debates at the Academy on the merits of color versus line" populate the world of French draftsmanship...
...FULL Tom Wolfe's long-awaited successor to The Bonfire of the Vanities lives up to all the hype, and then some. It is big (742 pages), crammed with the author's keen and boisterous prose and encyclopedic in its scope. Wolfe believes that novels can still show us the way we live now. His version of a cross section of today's Atlanta proves that his novels certainly...
...haunting tale. After the Civil War, nine ex-slaves move their families to the Western territories to found a new community and new lives. Nearly a century later, some of their descendants jointly commit a violent crime. Why? What happened to the dream of paradise? Morrison's soaring, incantatory prose provides the rich, unforgettable answers...
...book jacket enticingly advertises within its pages that "Stracher doesn't mince words about the outrageous practices and questionable conduct of many of the lawyers on the highest rungs of the legal profession." Stracher, indeed, does not "mince words." His prose is clear, accessible and peppered with frequent and helpful explanations--the distinction between criminal and civil law, the hierarchy of law office personnel, the legal prescriptions for whatever case he's working on, but despite the potential of Stracher's writing to produce a real shocker and the attractive claims of its book jacket, Double Billing hardly lives...
...prose that moves as seamlessly as poetry and as quickly as a stream of consciousness, Sullivan uses the first part of the book to speak of his life pre-AIDS. With candor and sensitivity, Sullivan is remarkably honest as he recounts how he never found true love in a relationship, quenched his loneliness with promiscuous affairs and used friendship as the one predictable source of support and spirituality. Friendship, in fact, forms a main artery of the book. After the onset of AIDS symptoms and the cavernous despair that ensued, Sullivan cites the strength of his friendships as providing...