Word: styling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeltsin's main target was what he called the weak leadership of Gorbachev. And for that, his campaign-style trip to the U.S.seemed to offer one solution: himself...
...beer-bottle shards. Here and there are anachronistic gestures to elegance -- carved laurels in a window casement, a Victorian turret, delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald Trump's two casinos: TRUMP CASTLE. WHERE BETTER IS NOT ENOUGH. Just beyond the corner, in the distance, pokes the upswept prow of Trump's 282-ft. yacht, the Trump Princess, at which local kids like to throw rocks. Even...
...fact, the eight autobiographies seem to have been chosen more for their diversity quotient than for their relevance to the style-versus-truth dichotomy which the author has posed as his central question...
...public figures, all eight autobiographers present an equally intractable set of questions about their public, as opposed to private, identieis which Leibowitz seems reluctant to answer. The book should--and does not--acknowledge the relevance of the writers' public status in disguising the personal "revelations" of style...
...style is Leibowitz's rationale for this book, then it seems an unfortunate consequence the turgid, academic prose he has chosen to express his own. Between the pages of plot summary, the endless intellectual bragging and the almost repetitive invocations of some nebulous American national "identity," Fabricating Lives gets lost in its own pretentiousness...