Word: prose
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Part of the mystery is that King had no need to plagiarize. He dealt himself a gratuitous wound. And what he lifted from others, or failed to attribute, tended to be pedestrian -- a moping prose...
Bowles made this caravan of horrors persuasive by suggesting that tragedy was the destination his travelers sought. His prose got under the skin of . hapless Port and Kit and revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical...
...victory -- like his famous talent raids of the late 1940s, when CBS wooed Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and other big stars away from NBC -- Paley seems curiously passive and remote. (His role is described in phrases like "Paley agreed instantly" and "Paley loved the idea.") Smith's workmanlike prose fails to give her main character the fascination of either his triumphs or his flaws. It is, perhaps, the quintessential TV story. Not heroic epic, not tragic drama; just a good soap opera...
...decently, for an amateur. Though his prose sloshes with pomposity -- "reserved for my lone delectation" is a standard clunker -- his book does well because he sees what is admirable in the splendid anarchism of the great players. He tells the story, among many other good ones, of the late Jack Straus, who, while waiting in federal court to be tried on a tax charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only...
...scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that is if they are still interested after reading one of the tamer examples of Ellis' zombie prose...