Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Pros, and John McPhee wrote the classic tennis portraits (of Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe) in Levels of the Game. Feinstein had the opportunity to write a book that would stand with these, but he is flat where he should be funny, and unevocative where he should sketch scenes...
...content to showcase Robin Givens' pert charms. And Michael Schultz's Livin' Large!, a kind of Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...
...random walk -- no cause, no effect and no harm done -- with the author's mischievous grin taking the curse off a detectable undertone of "Ain't I cute!" Getting non sequiturs to tail up like circus elephants doesn't always work, even if the paragraphs are amusing. In a sketch called Blumenthal on the Air, an American disk jockey for some reason is based in Paris and unaccountably burdened with a surly Iranian wife. He broods murkily without enlightenment, and so does the reader...
Cantor derived the title from a famous sketch by Arshile Gorky because he felt that Gorky's motive behind the drawing--the remaking of the self in art to overcome sadness--mirrors the purpose of the book. However, Cantor does little remaking of anything; he merely expounds on the injustices of conservatives and the scars left on our generation by the Vietnam...
...American press corps is not really that dumb. But the sketch on NBC's Saturday Night Live struck a responsive chord. In the realm of ridicule, it was a telling symbol: TV's hip, anti-Establishment comedy series chose for its satirical target, instead of a stiff-backed military leader or a bumbling president, the not-so-gentle men and women of the press...