Word: unbounding
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Library officials still say that protection of the works--not the minds of the reader--underlies the secluded stacks. They point out that other "X" classifications include miniatures, unbound books and works in bad condition or with missing parts...
...almost to spring out of his chair, unsettling his audience with high-voltage intensity. It was video High Noon: Bush had shot down the legendary media gunslinger from Black Rock. It was the new George Bush. Not Bush the perpetual stand-in, but Bush the stand-up guy. Bush Unbound. Bush Unwimped...
...national flavor -- Japanese-accented Esperanto, with upswept roof edges and exposed concrete beams formed into abstract "timbers." Isozaki's buildings of the '70s and '80s are the converse: instead of Japanizing a universal architectural style, he takes inspiration and ideas from anywhere he chooses, his odd, exciting syntheses unbound either by traditional or by antitraditional dogma. "I consider myself not a Japanese first," Isozaki says, "but rather an internationalist...
...going too far has been a hallmark of Roth's fiction from the beginning. His early stories provoked some Jewish readers to condemn him for anti-Semitism; Portnoy gave him a reputation as a sex maniac. His three books about Nathan Zuckerman, The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983), have led to charges that Roth is trapped in narcissistic reverie, writing about a writer who resembles himself. As if thumbing his nose at such comments, the author now offers The Counterlife (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 324 pages; $18.95). It features, naturally, Nathan Zuckerman...
...strongest and must amusing numbers is "C'est Moi," the entrance tune of Sir Lancelot (Andrew Gardner), a self-proclaimed "French Prometheus unbound." Gardner deftly embodies a ridiculous paragon of self-confidence and self-righteousness. He has a handsome easy manner and he uses his mobile (and bushy) eyebrows to great comic effect. From France, Lancelot has travelled to join Arthur's new order, the Knights of the Round Table, a chilvalrous fraternity dedicated to Arthur's new Machiavellian philosophy that might should be the weapon of right. Arthur welcomes him readily while the rest of the court initially...