Word: third-person
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...late last week, he seemed depressed and distracted. His press entourage had dwindled. Rally crowds were thin. In a Florida address, the ordinarily aggressive Senator was on the defensive. "Whatever you see on TV ads, Bob Dole is not going to raise taxes," he said, once again employing the third-person syntax that is beginning to sound like self-parody. "Bob Dole has never raised taxes...
Paradoxically, The Assault proves itself a daring film through the accuracy with which it follows Mulisch's novel. Mulisch's plot and dialogue are faithfully rendered, of course, but more surprisingly, so is his presentation. Like the book, the film is narrated in third-person by an anonymous, omniscient voice. The film is divided, like the book, into episodes marked by the year in which they take place...
...discovery should be no surprise, even to those inured to the pandering platitudes proffered by Hart. Mondale, and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Cuomo's credo is defiantly traditional and defiantly conventional. He states in the regal third-person: "...HE WILL [govern] ON THE BASIS OF TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, WHICH HE HAS CONVERTED INTO SPECIFIC IDEAS THAT ARE TRADITIONAL AND DEMOCRATIC." Cuomo's vision shines brightly because it is so forthright--government can and should help those who can't help themselves--and so innocent, unsullied by the ravages wrought by deficit spending and the gimmicky neo-liberalism developed...
Childhood, that traditional turf of the first novelist, is examined at a distance in William McPherson's refreshing debut, Testing the Current (Simon & Schuster; 348 pages; $15.95). The slow awakening of youth is noted in minutely observed and somewhat magnified detail, but at a third-person remove, almost as if the author were examining his cast through binoculars...
...author, 31, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, breaks no stylistic ground. He blocks out his novel in two broad sections. The first is the third-person narrative of Marge Hogan, farm daughter whose two older brothers are killed in World War II. She spends her working hours in a sea of white feathers and turkey droppings, and her free time at the Cove Café, where a desperate young woman might select the best from a bad lot of rude and scruffy locals...