Word: prose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what might be called holistic biology. It is a strong antidote to the hard-core diverseniks and the trendy campus fatalists who hold truth to be subjective and therefore relative. There is one truth, however, that is indisputable: unlike his critics, Wilson can do the science and the prose...
...dropped as I read Gates' "diary," surely the worst prose ever showcased in a national publication. Is it possible? Could the captain of global industry be little more than an idiot savant? BEN MADDEN Los Angeles...
...dinner for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the New Yorker's editor, Tina Brown, composed a "Fax from Washington" that she ran in her magazine's Talk of the Town section. It was a memorable bread-and-butter note, a valentine to her host, the President, written in the prose of a Harlequin romance: she sees "a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room...his height, his sleekness, his newly cropped, iron-filing hair." Forget, wrote Brown, "all the Beltway halitosis breathed upon his image...the neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel...
...tone of the prose inside was so soothing and personal that anxious parents who consulted it felt as if Spock himself were at their elbows telling them not to worry. "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do," he advised. He made sly jokes to suggest that strict rules were overrated: "How to fold a cloth diaper depends on the size of the baby and of the diaper...
...tragically, Coupland crosses that line as well. His prose in this novel is infinitely better than his point, which as the novel progresses comes across more and more as a cartoonish attempt at profundity. While he does touch on themes that ring painfully true regarding modern views on death, technology, loneliness and lack of purpose, too often he mixes them with banal platitudes or smart-ass witticisms that reduce his ideas to the absurd...