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...ring’s prose style is understated; the reader continually discovers the almost imperceptible threads that tie the characters to their own histories and to each other. As David recalls his father’s past, it becomes clear that this past is intimately connected to David’s own present and future...
Conley has rich material--horse-mad plutocrats, grisly sexual mishaps--and his prose is never less than engaging. He endows pampered Storm Cat, who commands half a million dollars for a roll in the hay, with "the hauteur and the low body fat of an underwear model." But once you are past the bizarreness of high- end horse prostitution, the book leaves you feeling a little jaded. Like the participants in the loveless couplings he describes, Conley doesn't invest a lot of emotion in his subject. Line for line, Conley is twice the writer Squires...
Once you have your pics (and, one assumes, some witty prose in mind), go online. Many places host Web pages. Three easy-to-use sites are Yahoo GeoCities www.geocities.com) AOL Hometown (for members, Keyword: Hometown) and Homestead Personal www.homestead.com) Each offers a quick, template-based option designed to have your home page up in about an hour...
Dworkin’s prose, like her oratory, is ruthless and uncompromising, driven by an incantatory rhythm. Her anger is untempered, measureless and directed equally at every target. But in a culture where feminists are frequently apologetic in their haste not to offend or be branded man-haters, Dworkin’s defiant stance, however divisive, is nothing if not courageous...
...Winchell, the ex-vaudevillian whose three-alarm radio voice exactly suited his brassy prose style, was by 1940 the highest-paid man in America. He made stars and broke them, announced when a celeb got married ("Lohengrinned") or separated ("splitsville" or "phffft"). He gave advice to F.D.R. and took favors from J. Edgar Hoover. At times Winchell was the news, as when Murder Inc. boss Louis Lepke surrendered to him and Hoover; at times the columnist withheld it, when someone like Clare Boothe Luce asked nicely. He created the new world of gossip, and ruled it from such perches...