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...this should not be taken as an insult to the “The Best Year,” because the book is really quite an enjoyable read with interesting, unconventional insights. Morrow, a professor at Boston University and a seasoned contributor to Time, writes in smooth, clear prose, although he sometimes shades toward the bombastic. For instance, in describing Nixon’s physical features, he writes, “On top, tense, Brillantined black hair ripples straight back from the forehead, like rapids...
...just as turn-of-the-century realist social literature had its Joyces and Faulkners to smash the illusion of representation with their shapeshifting prose, and the fiery politicized strains of the Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting...
...Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was not well-suited for the silver screen. Adams’ much-loved quirky humor based itself much more on rhythm, pacing, and idiosyncratic description than it did on any sort of visual comedy. Although his witty prose certainly evokes no shortage of silly imagery, the comedy invariably manifests itself more in the style and delivery of the description, than it does in the image itself. While, when deployed in a written or auditory medium, this style is used to hilarious effect, it simply wouldn’t work...
...novel “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” but when Kumin first met him, he was still a relatively obscure member of Harvard’s English Department. Stegner’s sharp-tongued manner of speaking to students, as Kumin recalls, belied the sensitive prose that would define his fiction in later years...
...Neurologically, the right side of her body has yet to recover fully. She has enough control of her hand to write her name, but she needs a computer to compose the poems and prose that she still produces so prodigiously. In the last scene of “Inside the Halo,” she triumphantly mounts Deuter for the first time since the accident nine months earlier. “We’re best friends,” she says of Deuter. “I was so grateful that he wasn’t hurt...