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Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...
Vachon does not look as if he could get in the way of a cream puff, let alone a rock-hard slab of rubber rocketing toward him at 100 m.p.h. or more. At 5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs., he is one of the smallest goalies in the league; he has neither the reach nor the muscle that helps such players as Montreal's Ken Dryden deflect shots with shoulders and legs. But Vachon makes up for his lack of size with one of the surest, fastest gloves in the game-and an extra dose of daring that gets...
Part of the overrun, Lawton said, is due to a decision to expand the Canaday cellar from a "slab construction" to a "full basement...
...artistic" way only make it uglier. Charles Bronson and Hope Lange as husband and wife are meant to conjure up domestic felicity, but their relationship is as superficial as the Instamatic photos he takes of her. Bronson, who is supposed to be attractive, has the film presence of a slab of ham. And thus his acts emerge not as the brave and pragmatic doings of the frontiersman, but as the petty and snivelling expression of a tiny mind...
Jeff Kristeller is the only professional potter in the show. His work, thrown during his leave of absence from Harvard this past year and a half, shows the widest range in the group, and contains the sole constructed piece (a rectangular slab, darkly glazed). His techniques include glossy enamelware and spartan slip-decorated stoneware; gigantic perfectly thrown jugs and tiny one-flower vases. The diversity of his work verges on disunity, and as with Allon's work, one senses the exploratory exercises of the craftsman rather than the developed and selective expression of the artist...