Word: untidyness
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The books are basically alike, particularly in their insistence that they portray the way things really are. In truth, they are more of a badge cadge. Michael Korda, Simon & Schuster's editor in chief, has said of the new cop books, "The prime element is that they suggest a...
Forgotten for much of the postwar era, Europe's sub-and transnational minorities have been making increasingly noisy claims for recognition and redress. Almost overnight, it seems, many if not most of Europe's central governments face what British Author Anthony Sampson describes in The New Europeans as...
It is a performance of such stature that the rest of the movie looks scrawny beside it. In Fail Safe and The Deadly Affair, Lumet showed a strong and substantial flair for melodrama, but nearly everything seems to go wrong for him in Child's Play, from Michael Small...
IN RABBIT REDUX, however, and now in some of the Museums and Women stories, Updike honestly reflects an untidy world and explores its moral, emotional, and sociological forces, without trying to find in it values similar to those he experienced elsewhere. From the lower floors of the middle class to...
Two unrelated stories are superb. The more striking of these, called The Millies, is the best piece of short fiction in some time. Updike has captured the hostility between culture and counterculture in the U.S., complete and entire, in about eight pages. He tells of an unbuilt, rocky hill in...