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Gurganus's prose, like his characterization, is dense and unconventional. The text is filled with deliciously authentic 1980s New York colloquialisms. In painstakingly describing the city, from Robert's green velvet suit and platform shoes to the gaudy decor of the hottest clubs, Gurganus demonstrates a superb sense of kitsch. Since he presents the narrative through the eyes of a displaced Southerner with an eye for rural detail, Gurganus is able to display his virtuosity in writing about nature, from the smell of soil in Central Park to the silver glitter of the Hudson River through the grimy windows...
Benfey often dives so deep into such detail that the reappearance of Degas is a jolt: Degas, again? The cogent explanations of Degas' paintings interspersed through the text transcend this discontinuity. New Criticism be damned, Benfey glories in tying the fiction of Cable and Chopin and the art of Degas to their personal lives. Whether connecting Degas' cousins to various figures in his paintings or noting how Degas' artistic preoccupation with the unfamiliar presence of African-Americans seeped into his work, Benfey perceptively joins life...
...only is its subject matter relatively new, but the main text of Religion 1007 has also taken on an innovative format--a multimedia CD Rom titled On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a product of the Pluralism Project, which was developed by Eck starting in 1991 to document the growing religious diversity...
...campaign trail--yet another version of what we speechwriters used to call his county-commissioner speech--I'd find a footnote by Michael Beschloss, who edited the tapes, saying, "Technically, this speech was written by Calvin Trillin, but, since what L.B.J. said bears absolutely no resemblance to the text, Trillin is not considered responsible for the war in Vietnam or any other national catastrophe...
...record ground-rule for Kissinger's remarks: he had told us last spring that he simply could not take on a full-text public speech commitment in October, requiring extensive preparation, but would at least agree to meet informally in an off-the-record question-and-answer setting with the Nieman alumni. Since most Nieman seminars, lunches, and dinners have been off-the-record for nearly 40 years now, I found the request entirely reasonable. Furthermore, I had no doubt that he would encounter--as he did--articulate adversaries, even angry ones, among his questioners...