Word: proses
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...array of talent spanned prose, poetry andsong, as well as dance and freestyle rap. Theaudience leapt to its feet several times, cheeringacts such as Saleem Washington, Chiqui Matthewsand B-side, and the third-annual FreshmanSteppers, the finale act of the "Experience...
...young woman who loved to gossip. Sitting not far away was Linda Tripp, another former White House aide, who had joined the Bush Administration as a secretary and later ran afoul of the Clinton team. Though Tripp was earnest and efficient, with good instincts and a gift for prose, few White House staff members had good things to say about her last week. "She was awful," says one former official who worked with her in the White House counsel's office. "She was surly; she was sullen; she had a chip on her shoulder and a nasty look...
...soft-spoken man, but when he talks he has the force of the federal bench behind him, so even Bill Gates listened--perhaps this time a bit too closely. In hearings two weeks ago, the combatants conducted an intricate dissection of the injunction's language. Jackson's prose demanded that Microsoft stop forcing vendors to include "any Microsoft Internet browser software (including Internet Explorer 3.0, 4.0, or any successor versions thereof)" on their Windows machines. O.K., Microsoft lawyers asked Justice, pointing to a long, obscure list of .DLL and .EXE program files, then which ones belong to Explorer and which...
That power is visible on nearly every page of Paradise. Morrison's prose remains the marvel that it was in her earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels...
...they come to pin the blame for this disruption on the strange women in the Convent is a tale of Faulknerian complexity and power. Morrison once wrote a Cornell master's thesis on Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, and the Mississippian's incantatory prose rhythms still crop up in her writing. Here is Deacon musing on the past as he drives around in Ruby: "He [Deacon's grandfather] would have been embarrassed by grandsons who worked twelve hours five days a week instead of the eighteen-to-twenty-hour days Haven people once needed just to keep alive, and who could...