Word: vignettish
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...Still Here, an anthem of survival that compresses four decades of social history into the battered but unrepentant cry of a faded star. It gets a showstopping performance by Dolores Gray, who made her Broadway debut in 1944 and hasn't faded a bit. Follies seemed fragmented and vignettish in 1971, and still does. But the tinsel glitters like stardust, and the vignettes are often thrilling...
...stories in Saints and Strangers--like the ones in The Bloody Chamber and her other collection, Fireworks--cannot really be considered short stories, either structurally or psychologically. They are vignettish in quality, always descriptive, poetically introspective, featuring lots of big words. Carter, like Jorge Luis Borges, whom she has claimed as her major influence, has an exhausting vocabulary--more unknown words per story than in most other collections of short fiction in English...
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