Word: proses
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THROUGHOUT VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S Lolita the prose chimes with music. How appropriate, then, that Rodion Schedrin, one of Russia's pre-eminent composers, has seized upon the novel for an opera. Schedrin's Lolita, which received its world premiere at the Royal Opera in Stockholm last month, runs four hours; unfortunately, the novel has more music on a single page...
Enough of what? Children are exposed to violence and sexual imagery many times a day in visual and printed media. Morrison and Kincaid, with their lyrical prose and powerful descriptions, have produced works of beauty unrivaled by most contemporary--and many canonical--writers. They have created literary masterpieces that poignantly depict female adolescents coping with their burgeoning sexuality and racial identity. But for the West Chester school board, each writer's challenging of race and gender stereotypes seems to strike a raw nerve...
...suspects that Boyd complicates the plot for the pleasure of disentangling it in lean, lively prose. He also offers fascinating insights into pre-modern medicine and the mad dreams of the earliest aviators-presented not as set pieces but woven into the narrative. In all, typical Boyd-satisfying and baffling at once...
...friendship grows, compliments and commiserations, family news and professional gossip flow steadily between the two. McCarthy helps Arendt with her prose; Arendt dispenses wisdom ("Thinking does not lead to truth. Truth is the beginning of thought.") and advises McCarthy about her love life: "Nobody ever was cured of anything, trait or habit, by a mere woman ... Either you are willing to take him 'as is' or you better leave well enough alone...
Essentially, the author's method is to mix the slangy, teen-dream prose of a suburban hell raiser with rock-solid numbers. He shows us kids who attended high school for only three days and schools that have never sent a single student to college. He explains how to hotwire a Suzuki 750 motorbike and how to sell fake acid on the streets. Yet all these fancy maneuvers are underscored by some sobering statistics. The average Japanese watches nearly an hour more of television a day than an American. Approximately 14,000 adult videos are made every year in Japan...