Shaughnessy's text is "straightforward and unsentimental" and Grossfeld's photographs are "sparkling and upbeat, evoking not the park's gloomy history but its charming eccentricities and ever-startling greenness," Charles McGrath wrote in the Book Review in 1999.
The voice is almost fruity but not quite, its modulations subtle without ever being startling.
It is the latest twist in a slow-burning scandal whose daily trickle of ever more startling revelations has drawn close to the center of French power.
From about 450 bc onward, dithyrambic poets such as Timotheus, Melanippides, Cinesias, and Philoxenus employed ever more startling devices of language and music until for ancient literary critics dithyrambic acquired the connotations of "turgid" and "bombastic".
As it is, Dogma 95 became a small but influential agent of change, while the restless man who started it continues to reinvent movies in ever more startling and outrageous ways.
Ms. Manville, a sympathetic Old Vic presence a few seasons ago in "All About My Mother," has the same diminutive physique as Ms. Channing and, more importantly, an ability to shift on a dime from robust comedy to an awareness of the rage and sorrow coursing beneath Ouisa's ever more startling array of clothes.
Today applications that once seemed to belong to the fringe, from e-books to special effects in films, are part of the cultural mainstream, and the blending of art and technology produces ever more startling results, it seems, with every passing day.
One can argue that, while the serious dramas we like to see, the tales of hatred and revenge, haven't changed in essence since Sophocles, our interest in shock tactics goes on evolving until we need to see ever-more startling and transgressive material.
NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem.
New statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else -- and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem.
