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Both a departure and a summing up, Keep the Change is described by McGuane as a "happy superimposition of results on intentions." Loyal readers will find themselves on familiar terrain -- the bone-dry wit, terse dialogue, lyrical descriptions of nature and hovering suggestion of violence are pure McGuane. But the measured tone and relatively upbeat ending of the book are a far cry from the pyrotechnical flash of his earlier works like The Bushwacked Piano or Ninety-Two in the Shade. Not all McGuane fans have stayed for the ride. "There are readers who abandoned me over the feeling that...
When he is done with the $250 million project in 1992, Singh intends the Truman Annex to be an environmentally sound, architecturally pure, socially engineered complex of 700 homes, condominiums, shops and hotel rooms. His design guidelines, reflecting the conch-house architecture of historical Key West, run to 27 dogmatic pages: "White is the preferred and approved basic color for all structures." "Each single-family unit shall have a bougainvillea within the front-yard area . . ." What he is building is an enclave away from the trashed-out, mixed-up modern world, and he gleefully plans to earn a pile...
...They'll make us practice, but I'm expecting the emphasis to be on pure fun," Vollmer said. "They're making sure we'll be doing much more than football...
...When, four decades ago...T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he seemed pure zenith, a colossus...fixed in the firmament like the sun and the moon," Ozick writes...
...needn't worry about anti-Semitism and greater-German nationalism, because they're dead. To many people, this statement is dogma. To others, it's pure untruth. Certainly the Germans have shown virtually no manifestations of a dormant Nazism in the past forty years; in fact, they have gone far to dispel Western suspicions...