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Walker broke ground with The Color Purple by writing in the voice of a poor Black woman. She showed a stunning power over words by using simple language to develop complex characters and show strong emotion. In Temple, Walker has done just the opposite. The book is a string of cliches and reads like a pop novel--there is too much discussion of running shoes, crystals and jacuzzis and not enough about people...
This incident is fast (it takes place in a couple of pages), and the book never significantly deals with the aftermath of the accident, so it seems to be just another contrived misfortune in a long string. Jeremy is the Charlie Brown of modern adolescent fiction. By the time Jeremy finds a voice, we are so wary as not to care...
...junior John E. Churchville, who said on Sunday that he thought the posters and graffiti were the work of a single student and not the Klan, said yesterday that the string of phone calls had made him less sure...
...Sentimental Thing" is a lovely ballad, in which Jackson wisely plays with lyrical lines of unequal lengths and correspondingly non-correspondent meters. The instrumental bridge is a string quartet; the coda is also counched in lush strings, with Askew contributing a haunting, wordless "Madame Butterfly" type aria. This segues into an instrumental, "Acropolis Now," which begins promisingly as a hybrid between '80s rock and Greek folk guitar, but it begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses...
When I tell someone I drive the shuttle, I inevitably get a string of complaints about the lousy service that the shuttle provides...