Word: sophisticatee
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The costumes fare less well; in the first act, they are distinctly eccentric. Medbh's sweater and jeans and socks visibly dirty on the bottom form a convincing ensemble, but the black jacket, cherry skirt and purple print blouse that Catherine sports when walking in the door from New York...
What's true of the overall narrative is also true of the way its major figures have been conceived. There are times when one can't help feeling that the history most pointedly informing Michael Collins is not that of tragic Ireland but of lightsome Hollywood, making sure that past...
Brazen self-reinvention is one of the great themes of American literature. Of course, when James Gatz turned himself into the fabulous Jay Gatsby, he was following the more traditional pattern of the outsider remaking himself as a metropolitan sophisticate. But in these days of rampant reverse snobbery, when "outsiderness...
In his first novel. The same River Twice. Chris Offutt Plungers directly into the sophisticate realm of high fiction. Directly, that is, if you discount his only other published work, Kentucky Straight. In that collection of short fiction. Offutt shamelessly sold out his Kentucky heritage to Random. House. After slogging...
That suits the French preference for treating such laws as a general guideline, and no one expects the restrictions to be observed strictly for some time to come. But as antismoking campaigns in the U.S. and Singapore have demonstrated, tough laws and peer pressure can fast reduce the smoker from...