Word: stylistic
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...deeper problem lies with Max himself, who was too much the fastidious dandy, too much the meticulous stylist, to serve as a vehicle for the broad, boisterous traffic of the stage. He considered his twelve-year stint as drama critic for London's Saturday Review a penance in the form of intellectual slumming. He viewed the theater's vulgarity with distaste, and the occasional passion of high drama with skepticism. He had his muses-grace, urbanity, nuance-and he served them exquisitely, but those girls never make the chorus line...
...Proust gets another whirl from Novelist Elizabeth Bowen. She takes the character of Bergotte, Proust's fictitious writer of fiction, and after wondering briefly whether the original might have been Anatole France, finally decides Bergotte is really a "standin, scapegoat, whipping-boy for" Proust-particularly as a purple stylist and a snob...
This is a pity, for Sillitoe is a writer of considerable talent: an ingenious storyteller, a stylist and, best of all, a genuinely rebellious spirit. Now, with a bow to Defoe and Fielding, he offers a cheerful picaresque novel subtitled "the ordinary and not so ordinary adventures of a bastard and a proletarian . . . when the star of his destiny takes him to London and sundry places...
...nine P.G.A. tournaments and currently ranks No. 10 among golf's alltime money winners. (Palmer leads, with $1,364,898.) Besieged by sponsors waiting to have their wallets tapped, he also has a host of lucrative endorsement deals with, among others, Blue Bell, Inc. (sportswear), Abbott Laboratories (golf equipment), Stylist Shoe Co., Downtowner Motor Inns, Chrysler's Dodge Division, and, of course, the Dr Pepper Co. In addition, Lee Trevino Enterprises Inc. is readying a TV series called Golf Celebrity and a $1.5 million luxury apartment complex in El Paso called Casa Trevino...
...More Time, or full of poised wisdom in her top-20 single That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. >Linda Ronstadt, 25, has had two Capitol LPs out in less than a year. Born in Tucson, Ariz., she is basically a country-rock stylist. Her musical interests (Cajun and mariachi among them) are broad, and she can somehow get as much kick into singing a slow blues number as into a wailing rock version of Wayne Raney's We Need a Lot More of Jesus (and a Lot Less Rock and Roll). - Rita...