Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers of the sentimental, stylishly drawn comic strip, On Stage (Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicate), thought they recognized its new character, a late-night TV talker named Bud Birdie. The readers were right. From the top of his toupee to the tips of his well-bitten fingernails, Birdie was...
After he retired in 1948, Stillings' hotel room grew more cluttered with company reports and market letters. Every so often he rode to New York on his lifetime train pass to visit his broker; sometimes he traveled all the way to Florida to look at real estate. And ten...
The fact mattered little in The Wind, in which only one character is of much importance. The Grass, which tells the story of the deterioration of a French provincial family, as an old aunt lies dying, is more intricate and less suited to Simon's techniques. Parts of the...
Through the haze, objects, people and fragments of speech are seen and heard with heightened clarity. Mood and character are conveyed with subtlety and force. But complicated events and relationships often are lost to view.
The author has picked a difficult sort of hero, a man whose birth, so to speak, has left him unnaturally sensitive but permanently exhausted. Millhouser has been made thoroughly credible; his character is consistent as far as the reader is able to peer into it. But the view, not deep...