Word: prose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Updike's prose, as usual, is like the posteriorof one of his protagonist's many women:"gray-clad...firm but a touch more ample than [is]locally fashionable..." Though costumed in theheavily scented, rarefied air of the uptownapartments of the pretentious and over-educated,the novel, in keeping with the spirit of its(anti)hero, is at heart an ever-so-slightlydoddering, luscious, highly sexualized andself-satirical backwards glance at a ratherunremarkable life of letters. His absolutelysucculent, if somewhat condescending descriptionsof leggy, perpetually nude women aside, Updikeexcels in dialogue, cocktail party dialogue, rifewith the sarcastic, incisive mental commentary ofBech. Some...
Saramago expertly crafts this intricate and horrifying allegory with a style as striking as it is sparse. The language is never intricate, extremely metaphorical or descriptive; rather, Saramago relies on the sharp edge of spare, pointed prose to pierce the fragile shells of human decency and social stability. Images of rape and death are told with the same distanced tone as scenes of strength and love, melding tone and image into a grand, constant conglomerate of uncomfortable fear and hopelessness...
...Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons, but disseminated among everybody in order to spread computer intelligence. His prose makes a family concept continually come to mind throughout the middle of the book, which humanizes a cold technology...
...many political figures in Ireland for being too ineffective and too oblique, but Heaney gave the impression in his several appearances at Harvard that he in no way regrets his decisions to avoid public politicking. The later collections become more and more violent and even overtly political in prose style and theme (particularly the works in The Spirit Level), but never lose their acute Keatsian awareness of detail and natural beauty...
...paraphrased section of a biology text and a set of journal entries sparkling with banality. At one point, underdeveloped character aboard ship Gloria screams, "Blame it one the stars!" Perhaps they are the culprits. But fate aside, Freud, Marx and all of the jargon undermine Schine's witty prose. As Jane's mother tells her daughter, the reader might associate with the author: "You are a girl of conviction. I admire that...