Word: stylist
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...that certain writers adopt convicts: criminals, sinister, romantic and stupid as sharks, become the executive arms of intellectuals' violent fantasies. For some reason, intellectuals rarely understand that they are being conned: convicts are geniuses of ingratiation. Still, Mailer after all was not promoting a killer but a prose stylist and what he judged to be a salvageable human being. He miscalculated: he overrated the writer in Abbott and underestimated the murderer...
...comes from consistency. Part of Diebenkorn's essential tone has always been the way his first pictorial impulses survive in the written-over manuscript of his work. His mastery of his own long-considered syntax has never led him to smooth out the quirks. Diebenkorn is a great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium. These modest drawings clearly signal an interesting turn in his work. Will a series of paintings on the scale and quality of the Ocean Parks eventually come out of them? One would be rash to bet against it. -By Robert...
...Pakula might have succumbed to the temptation to rush through the financial pages of his script in order to get on with the elements of murder, mystery and romance. But as he has proved in films like Klute and All the President's Men, Pakula is a true stylist, a man who sees the world through a slow-panning lens darkly. For him, the corridors of power are menacingly dim and hushed, and by forcing the audience to dwell on his paranoid vision of that maze, the director commands a certain sober respect...
...instance, in "Creating a Family with Style," Crisp and Carroll ask, "If you are a stylist you will buy pets for your children because: 1) it will give them a sense of responsibility; 2) it will save you having to play with them; 3) you want the pets for yourself; or 4) you want an alternative food supply in case of an economic depression." Funny, right? There are actually answers! They are ranked to indicate how much style you have. Here they are: 1) 0 pts. 2) 3 pts. 3) 2 pts. 4) 1 pt. The "funny" answers seem...
...unattractiveness of the sex act is just one of the problems it poses for the stylist. Another is that it is very difficult to be naked with style. The sum is diminished by the sight of the parts. Also, for sex--conventional sex, that is--you require a partner, which makes it a group activity. And a stylist avoids anything that requires membership of a group, even if it's a group of only two. Nor does the sexual act itself allow much scope for the expression of individuality, because in whatever version it's performed it is still predetermined...