Word: afterword
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close-up scale and bold monumentality. In this 100th anniversary year of the artist's birth, a selection has been beautifully reproduced in Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers (Knopf; $100). Their richness and vibrancy seem to leave nothing to say, and Editor Nicholas Callaway, except in a brief afterword, presents the plates without comment. The effect is magnificently simple, and simply magnificent...
...baby sells itself and needs no advertising copy," advises the author. And so, at $14.95 apiece, will Fatherhood. But just in case, Doubleday has planned a $300,000 promotion campaign, and will swamp stores with a first printing of 750,000 copies. Featuring an introduction and afterword by Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, the Harvard psychiatrist and script adviser on Cosby's hit TV series, the 192-page parental primer is already a Literary Guild selection. A new comedy album, called Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand, will be released shortly, to boost and be boosted...
...DYLAN'S Lyrics, 1962-1985 doesn't contain an introduction or an afterword, a chronology or a summary, a preface or a publisher's note, a jacket biography or even a jacket. Sturdily bound in a glossy gray hardcover, it looks more like a junior high school science textbook than a definitive edition of a great artist's work. Inside, on heavy-stock paper and printed with big, easy-to-read letters, is page after page of lyrics, liner notes and line drawings penned by the former Robert Zimmerman in the 24 years since he arrived in New York City...
...enough to influence even a Nobel laureate. Hence the strange ambivalence of The Penitent. This "new" novel was first published in 1973. It exhibits Singer's narrative mastery, but none of his compassion; it offers only one character, Joseph Shapiro, and he is so acrimonious that in an afterword, Singer disavows his own creation: "While I was brought up among extremists who thought and felt like that angry man... I cannot agree with...
Like an American Grafitti behind the Iron Curtain, the movie examines its several characters in an Epilogue. This one, though, provides no ironic afterword on the plot. The sexual denouement between Dini and Magda is completely incomprehensible, while the Koves family sings an old national folk song in a vaguely optimistic scene so inconsonant with the rest of the movie that it may have been government-mandated...