Word: proses
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...mediocrity covering everything, just as there was in 1886 or 1786--even more, no vacuum cleaners then. That's where we come in, the young writers of the world. We must make our words literary vacuum cleaners to suck the dust of mediocrity into the inimitable vortices of our prose. Didn't Churchill say something about dust: `we shall clear it on the land, we shall clear it on the beaches'--well, it'd be difficult to clear it on the beaches....But clear that dust we must. Until at last the dust is atomic, and even then, it must...
...horror movie touted by the hip critical fringe, it falls just short of delivering on its artistic promises. Director Stuart Gordon has fun trying to slice it both ways, though. Fleshing out a story by Horror Aesthete H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon finds florid visual correlatives for Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather to revive Nerdy Genius Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) by any means at hand. Heady stuff...
...HANDLINS' BOOK offers flashes of insight and occasionally masterful prose. As a pure, academic history book, however, it has major faults. At times the writing is amateurish. For example, some passages are so breathy and frothily silly that it is difficult to believe they were written by an historian...
...prose is strikingly gnomic as Langley tells of her past and future. But the consistent tone masks an impatience with novelistic invention. Much of the novel reads like a catchall of California behaviors and the confessional sociology that passed for journalism in the '70s. Sometimes See is right on the money: "I don't remember Jack very well at all. And we were married five years! He hated the way I held hamburgers." But there is not enough of this to pass for serious fiction...
Less gymnastic and acrobatic than pairs skating, ice dancing, which bears more than a passing resemblance to ballroom dancing, works its wonders within a smaller compass. It allows no high lifts, for example, and spins are limited to 1 1/2 turns. "The difference is like that between poetry and prose," says Dick Button, the American skating impresario and Olympic figure-skating star. "They are two different disciplines. Both can be beautiful...