This in turn often leads to a book containing 50 pages of interesting prose, padded out with 200 further pages of less-than-thrilling examples, anecdotes and amplifications.
An infamous stickler about word rates, O'Hara would have had to find something else besides neckties to pad his prose if he were alive today.
Carter is constantly breaking prose stride in favor of bullet points, and at one point pads out 13 pages with an alphabetical listing of the coalition dead in Iraq.
Music is unleashed to whip the action along, but without the stealthy pad of Highsmith's prose or Hitchcock's morbid oblique detail there is little suspense.
In November, the Simon & Schuster editor spent three weeks at the White House, working intensively to expand and refine the material with the aides and with Clinton, who filled yellow legal pads with incorrigibly wonky prose, in "round, schoolgirlish handwriting," the editor told me.
Occasionally from the dead prose, the cliches, padding, simplifica tions, generalizations, redun dancies, didactic inventories and several other versions of freshman term‐paper pecca dillo, an insight surfaces.
Mr. Poulsen's prose is fat-free, largely devoid of padding and wandering tangents.
And the whole thing is delivered in a prose that always wears the literary equivalent of shoulder pads, orange lipstick and stilettos.
You suspect that Reporter LeDuff, who notes the shoulder pads in Kilpatrick's suits, would distrust the occasionally puffed-up nature of Writer LeDuff's prose.
