Word: fathomless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn-of-the century party. Artie, a free-lance computer wizard, has behaved badly, and Louise, a gifted painter of enigmatic farm scenes, has kicked him out of their apartment. The novel, of course, must get them back together. But the narration is chaotic, scattered, raisined with fathomless almanac entries ("February 3, 1874--Gertrude Stein born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania"). Coherence rarely proceeds more than a few pages in any direction. This fragmented account, however, fits the fragmented love affair. The result is a brilliant and convincing urban mindscape, despite the irrelevant happenstance of the new year's numbing zeroes...
...loss of Balanchine, ballet's presiding genius, and of such grand figures as Lucia Chase, who ran American Ballet Theatre for 35 years. Further, he notes that some of the mystery went out of the art with the breakup of the Soviet Union-no more defectors with their fathomless melancholy, struggling for a free artistic life...