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That power is visible on nearly every page of Paradise. Morrison's prose remains the marvel that it was in her earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils...
By now Weegee's unsentimental views have been institutionalized as another kind of sentimentality--tough-guy picturesque. He's the Norman Rockwell of the Ratso Rizzos, the Currier & Ives of the roughnecks. He took his share of kids at the circus and sweet old couples, but the images we love...
When a cherished ballerina leaves the stage, it's a poignant, deeply emotional moment. During Merrill's final performance, the lilt and tilt of her leaps, her supercharged energy and attack revealed the athleticism, the Americanness that has typified her dancing. She first captured master choreographer George Balanchine's interest...
Jewish mysticism dates far back into antiquity, but the Kabbalah ("received" teachings) crystallized with the Zohar, the 13th century masterpiece set down in ancient Aramaic by the Spanish Jew Moses de Leon. Superficially, the book was a mystical novel, a kind of Celestine Prophecy precursor. But initiates knew better. Shrouded...
For most of the country, admittedly, this isn't exactly prime time for thinking about lawn and garden care. With temperatures from Hartford, Conn., to Boise, Idaho, averaging around the freezing mark in the month of December, most sane people--carolers notwithstanding--stay indoors as much as possible. But spring...