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EDWIN MULLHOUSE by Steven Millhauser. This skillful first novel is both a literary Nabokovian joke-about an 11-year-old who writes the biography of a dead playmate-and an affecting memoir of childhood.
Sir / Who's to be Man of the Year? Nixon again? Most probably, but I'd rather cast my vote for Henry Kissinger, the skillful negotiator.
The movie is rather abrupt and disconnected, partly because that is the nature of Di Noi's trial, but also because Director Loy too often seems eager to get his character through the course. Sordi's face is India rubber, his body a whole silent vocabulary of bewilderment...
Forsyth's skillful set-piece description of how to make a bomb and attach it to a Jaguar XK 1505 (using five rubber erasers and a broken hacksaw blade) is a model of worldly efficiency. But he is also capable of howlingly unintentional humor. After pages and pages recalling...
Two better stories, "A Year in Regent's Par," and "Lions, Leaves, Roses..." recall Virginia Woolf, both in style and in the love, shared with Henry James as well, of the garden metaphor and the English park. The writing in these two stories is quite skillful, at times almost beautiful...