Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world-class author in splendid form...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in splendid form...
...picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally are flinty, unrouged, splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag heap...
...Francisco with its 400,000 souls was the undisputed gem of the Pacific Coast, a bustling, pungent, polyglot city enjoying corrupt government, splendid libraries and wonderful restaurants. As a hub of international finance and society, it rivaled New York City and Paris, and it took perverse pride in its reputation, well earned by the depravity of the carnal Barbary Coast, as "the wickedest city in the world." The evening of April 17, when the nonpareil Enrico Caruso sang in Carmen at the Grand Opera House before repairing to the fabulous Palace Hotel (a telephone and bath for every room...
...journalism -- the kind done with words -- is the first draft of history, what is photojournalism? Is it the first impression of history, the first graphic flash? Yes, but it is also (and this is the disturbing thing) history's lasting visual impression. The service that the pictures perform is splendid, and so powerful as to seem preternatural. But sometimes the power they possess is more than they deserve...