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There are rumbles too from the author's former Shangri-La. A rancid attack by Atlanta-based free-lancer Ed Hinton in January's GQ charged that Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation...
...over, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire had become the most famous pair of dancers that would ever cut their way across a high-gloss floor or up a spiral staircase. In the memorable words of Katharine Hepburn, the pairing gave him sex and her class-yet Rogers' own singular combination of pathos and spunk would make itself evident in non-Astaire efforts like 1937's Stage Door. In the years following the screen couple's parting of the ways in 1939, she scored such triumphs as her Academy Award-winning work in the tearjerker Kitty Foyle (1940). A Christian Scientist...
Many would maintain that it cannot. Historical isolationists claim that the enormity of the evil that occurred in mid-century Europe was beyond anything seen before on earth. The Nazis committed singular crimes, they argue, fundamentally incongruous with any other historical acts of violence or even genocide...
Souljah's prose is simple and straight-forward, deceptively so. Her staunch and unchanging opinions, particularly regarding her singular and romanticized vision of race, read like the ghetto girl's "perfume" and "fake smiles." The book's most severe limitation is that it admits no evolution of thought, and never confesses to any wrong answers...
...colors would be richer and deeper. Even his etchings, one plate of which is featured beside the finished print so that all the delicate lines can be inspected, were often done on iron or steel rather than the standard copper. All of these processes attest to Nolde's singular devotion to creating his world, as scary and enticing...