Word: wordsmith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what were all those errands for? And why would Minna retell a joke instead of fingering his killer in his final moments? Finding out whodunit is interesting enough, but it's more fun watching Lethem unravel the mysteries of his Tourettic creation. In this case, it takes one trenchant wordsmith to know another...
...slapstick humor (flower pots and eggs falling on the heads of government officials, Benigni paying so much attention to Dora in his restaurant that he ends up carrying a live poodle on his serving tray), complemented by a lyrical and occasionally surreal style. Benigni's talent as a wordsmith is also evident: no knowledge of Italian is necessary to understand that he has a way with the language that is highly amusing in itself. There are also, however, hints of what is to come, but it's not in Guido's nature to let these threats impede his lifestyle. When...
...essential oeuvre of Heaney's work, previously established within a mythical, symbolic, and imagistic framework? Hardly. Rather, Heaney is saying with his title and the anthology it names that his life as a poet is in no way complete, his digging but only begun. The fans of this miraculous wordsmith have a lot more in store to enjoy...
...someone with a reputation as a wordsmith, as one of the founders of punk, as a veteran artist who has had eight years to think about what she wanted to say, Smith should have been able to come up with something better than a cartoony, colonial-era take on cannibalism as a metaphor for issues of survival. Listening to such painfully out-of-touch music from Smith, as well as these other pop standouts from the past, is enough to cure the worst case of nostalgia...
...Jesus cannot be reduced to a wordsmith in the marketplace, spinning little aphorisms and telling funny stories," he announces. Building on previous work by the historian E.P. Sanders stressing Jesus' place within 1st century Judaism, Wright concludes that the Gospels provide sufficient evidence to deduce not just a wandering sage who was crucified for reasons unclear, but a prophet who announced a coming Kingdom of God and died for it; and that this framework in turn clarifies "dozens of examples where the details fall into place." Specifically, his book will state that Jesus' trial, the fact that he claimed...