Word: retold
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...named Teddy who got stoned and fell out of the second deck at Tiger Stadium on their wedding afternoon. Somebody else fell or was pushed from a hotel window, landing on a mounted policeman, killing the policeman and his horse. Good stuff but old stuff, not dramatized but simply retold...
...varying intensity, the fears have assumed a pervasive, even obsessive dimension. One store reported a sudden boom in $2,000 steel-canopy beds capable of withstanding "an entire collapsing roof." Conversations are dominated by the quake. True tales of the fateful moment at 4:31 a.m. are told and retold: how in one Sherman Oaks home a water bed went wild, flipped its occupant against the ceiling and then heaved him against the wall as though to suffocate...
Powell's story is one that has been retold many times. Born in Harlem on April 5, 1937, he grew up in the South Bronx and graduated from the City College of New York in 1958. Afterwards, he became a second lieutenant in the Army through ROTC...
Although Robinson and her teammates only finished seventh out of eight boats in that race, they laughed as they retold the story on Saturday in Weld Boat House before about 50 other current rowers, coaches and alumnae at the Radcliffe Crew Reunion...
...burst forth. However, these moments do little to sustain the overall ho-hum drama which is meant to propel the novel. It reads as if a Dynasty script meets "Miami Vice" in Colombia followed by the same Dynasty script meeting. "The Living End" in Germany. And this is all retold, often second-hand, by a not so reliable narrator in New York sometime later. Oh, and a serial killer lurks about the pages. This allusion seems so cliche it's forgettable, but so irritatingly contrived that it's not easily forgotten...