Word: stylistics
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IGNORING THE LARGER and more interesting questions, and failing to recognize or denying the black-is-white "style-is-substance" proposition, Crisp and Carroll theorize that the way to become a stylist is to "be yourself, but on purpose." Protect the sacred well-spring of your uniqueness, so to speak. Not only protect but trumpet forth to the world "all your peculiarly unique characteristics; develop and attract all possible attention to yourself, as a distinct and singular persona." Not only will you be able to acquire style this way, you will be able to acquire it easily in 13 lessons...
News of the deal surfaced just hours before John Chancellor wound up NBC's Nightly News last Friday with a fond farewell to his colleague: "As a writer, he is simply the best. As a stylist, he is impossible to imitate." Quite true, but Brinkley's NBC bosses seemed almost to have forgotten that during the past year. In fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against...
...Nazi, with Donald Sutherland-adventures of the famous German spy known as "Der Nazi"; at Cinema 2: Arlene, with Bernadette Peters and Helen Hayes-zany alcoholic millionairess cavorts with foul-mouthed maid; at Cinema 3: Blow Dry ("Murder has a wave of its own")-hair stylist overhears plot to murder the memory of Alfred Hitchcock...
...done a video presentation of Bette Davis Eyes that looks like a production number from Scaramouche as directed by Federico Fellini. In fact, her Minstrels past and her new romantic future seem equally synthetic. She has, simply, a good solid way with a ballad. She is the kind of stylist an earlier time would have called a thrush, and despite what she calls her "perpetual frog," she sings as if she has a gardenia behind...
Though Rule is no great stylist--her good intentions and horror at the story cause severe purpling of the writing at crucial times--her book is at least a sensitive, steady account of the facts, given a moving dimension through her relationship with the murderer. Though Rule, like Larson, is unable to get past a snapshot description of the victims to make them stand out as individual sacrifices to the sociopath, one feels it is not because of a deadness of her moral sense. Unlike Larson's rote transcription of the case, The Stranger Beside Me grapples with Ted Bundy...