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...contrast to the cinematically luxurious Greed, the libretto of McTeague -- by Bolcom's longtime collaborator Arnold Weinstein and director Robert Altman -- relates the action in spare, simple prose. McTeague (tenor Ben Heppner), a powerful brute who has set up shop as an unlicensed dentist in San Francisco, falls in love with his best friend Marcus Schouler's girl, Trina (soprano Catherine Malfitano, in a marvelously sensual performance). After Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery -- and McTeague's practice is ruined when the jealous Marcus (baritone Timothy Nolen) reports him to the authorities -- the relationship sinks slowly into a morass...
...actually began writing short stories right after grad school. It's different way of looking at the world, but in the end every word in a novel counts too; it just doesn't have that kind of starburst quality of poetry. I do think the rift between prose and poetry has been made greater than what it really is in this country...
...believe in it because we are too good for anything less, second Adams who should not be trammeled by rules and regulations? Or do we believe in it because none of us is good enough to wield the power that accumulates in more regimented societies? In the prose of law, the tension between these polarities crackles over the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are "created equal," with "certain unalienable rights," among which is "the pursuit of happiness," no less. We also have a government so designed that "rage" for "improper or wicked project((s))," as James Madison...
...long passages that Clayton includes from his never completed book on Buchanan are often impressive and sometimes moving, written in an accurate pastiche of an older and more formal American prose. "All these 19th century people made sense," he tells Genevieve, "in a way we can't any more. They still had a language you could build with." But Clayton's demonstrated writing skill raises some questions. Why is he stuck in a professional dead end, at a backwater junior college? What accounts for his obsessively detailed response to a routine questionnaire...
...over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil rights movement, falls into poverty. The victim's family seeks solace in the North but falls prey to the evils of the inner city. In clean, elegant prose, Campbell offers a powerful reminder that racism is a crime for which everyone pays...