Word: stylist
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...novels much, except that one about Spain." In stead, the author pores over maps, diaries and histories. In addition, he regularly does field work in Durango, Colo., so that he can be close to the land he writes about. If L' Amour is not praised as a prose stylist, he is applauded for lore that is accurate down to the last lariat...
Harrison has absolutely no patience with the neurasthenic absorption and empty style of Joan Didion--who has been called "America's finest woman prose stylist," but whom Harrison finds "transparently ersatz," and "merely cheap." "All connections are equally meaningful and equally senseless," says Joan of Dark; her nihilism, says Harrison, amounts to amorality. Didion's not entitled to "fiddle while Watts burns," and her disconnection of the suffering soul from any political or spiritual meaning, sorely contrasts with Harrison's crusade to restore those vital, fading links...
BORN. To Tom Wolfe, 49, razzmatazz stylist and astute chronicler of the trendy and status conscious, who coined "radical chic" and "the me decade" and wrote The Right Stuff, a recent bestseller about the Mercury astronauts; and Sheila Berger Wolfe, 37, art director of Harper's magazine: a daughter, their first child; in New York City. Name: Alexandra Kennerly...
...wrote about men in public roles at a time when most serious fiction was burrowing ever deeper down the rabbit hole of self. Critics complained, irrelevantly, that Snow was not Proust and, accurately, that his prose was often pedestrian and awkward. While he never pretended to be an elegant stylist. Snow had an ear for the telling phrase; two of the titles he corned for the "Strangers and Brothers" series, The New Men and Corridors of Power, quickly became common currency...
DIVORCED. Vidal Sassoon, 52, British hair stylist whose geometric cuts helped shape fashion in the post-beehive 1960s and who heads his own beauty products firm; and his second wife Beverly Adams Sassoon, 33, former actress; after 13 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif...