Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew he would need the support of both worlds-Middle America and the coastal liberals-to win the nomination. His aim is to live a double life as long as possible. As a onetime dirt farmer who has become the author of three constitutional amendments, he offers a political style that is both country ham and hard ball-take your pick. In Washington he appears to be the tough, ambitious sophisticate; on the stump in Indiana, he turns into a country...
Lurie has set herself the task of focusing your curiosity on a stranger. Since the subject lacks initial interest, the style is crucial. Sometimes Lurie fails to realize that the punch line of a memory is easier to deal with if you were there, and her reflections are smothered by commonplace observations and a chummy attitude toward Lang. She doesn't come through with the kind of technique that gets around your indifference to, say, Gorey's insomnia, often enough: "I went upstairs. Ted had been up for hours he said. 'I don't really like sleeping lately,' he apologized...
MICHAELS'S STYLE and range partially conceal this tension. The stories run from a page to thirty, at one point in stream-of-consciousness imitation of a bourgeois psychotic and at another, in the ostensibly reasonable tones of a well-read intellectual. Humor is consistently sardonic: clever when discussing the posturing of a talentless college professor in his quest to publish his book and vindictive when describing a dinner of the haute bourgeoisie ("Nothing tasted. From course to course I'd swallowed textures, not tastes, like a cat gobbling kill...
...Rosen. Though brief, it is fragmented; two of its four chapters are merely reprinted from magazine articles. Much of the material is a rewording of standard observations about Schoenberg, and the book rarely attains the level of brilliant originality that characterized so much of Rosen's The Classical Style...
Militating against Sullivan's prediction, on the other hand, is a split in the ranks of the Independents, old-style Democrats who draw their strength from working-class and ethnic sections of the city. Last time the five Independent councilors--Sullivan, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy, Alfred E. Vellucci and Leonard J. Russell--ran together on an "Independent Slate;" this alliance was splintered after the election, however, when Sullivan and Russell decided to support the liberals' choice for city manager in return for their own election as mayor and vice-mayor...