Word: throwbacks
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...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser-a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who puts success before virtue...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser-a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who put success before virtue...
...fashioned Traviata and the New York City Opera with Beni Montresor's fairy-tale setting of The Magic Flute. In neither case was the performance on much more than a ho-hum level; in fact, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe's first Met Violetta seemed an almost deliberate throwback to the bad old days when singers were meant to be heard but not seen...
...fierce-tempered Panamanian who prides himself on being a fine judge of wine and women (his wife is a former Miss Universe) as well as horse flesh, Manny Ycaza is a throwback to the old hell-for-leather days of racing- before sharp-eyed stewards and patrol cameras- when herding, crowding, blocking, intimidating, or even rapping rival riders across the ribs with a whip were part of the game. Understandably, he has few friends among his fellow jocks. Nor is it very surprising that in eleven years, he has been "set down," or suspended, for a total of 608 days...
...Eliot's generation, Robert Frost seemed a throwback; yet, while he adhered to established forms, he commanded a deceptively simple vision of man's vanities, his heart and his land. More experimental, and less accessible, were William Carlos Williams, a true avant-garde poet and master of the spare, stripped-down image, and Wallace Stevens, a pointillist of light, color and all intangible things. Marianne Moore, now 79, constructs unique mosaics from conversations, newspaper clippings and even scientific tracts...