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Such homeward allusions may dot our prose from time to time--so be it. Me, I know the Braves' pitchers and catchers report to West Palm Beach on February 17, and I can't wait. But the Harvard men's hockey team visits Princeton February 4, and such events must, by definition, be my focus this year...
...Wine Atlas of California and the Pacific Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...
...writing a column for TIME and want to demonstrate what a lame novelist Robert James Waller is. Easy, in every sense. I get a copy of Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (which is published by Time Warner), pluck out a piece of lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County...
...heavily against fair use. For one thing, the insurance companies that provide the obligatory "errors and omissions" insurance for TV productions demand that each clip come with a permission slip from its copyright owner. (Imagine if a book critic had to get Rush Limbaugh's permission to quote his prose in a review, and maybe pay him for the privilege; that's precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime. Well, then, could one at least produce...
...Faulkner quote on the wall--"the past isn't past, it isn't even done"--we are left not only disappointed, but with no excuse to be in the men's bathroom. The women's bathroom, however, offers ample consolation, for on the stalls are a cornucopia of persuasive prose. Wars of words rage over race, gender, sexuality and the Rhode Island School of Design...