The show I saw began with a startling display of avant-garde belly-dancing, courtesy of Anokha Coxe, before moving on to an immensely silly piece of description-defying crockery-smashing dance poetry centred around Cinderella's incarceration on a space station.
The set pieces of description in the English & American 19th century novel correspond to the primacy of landscape in English painting.
I like to think that the piece is as much a tribute, a work of homage, as it is a piece of satirical description.
The madhouse, run by Quakers, is a careful piece of period description on the novelist's part, but it takes the narrator outside his period and into a timeless limbo.
One of the saddest parts of your piece is your description of the University of Abidjan turning out thousands of graduates with absolutely no prospect of employment.
FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENT'S piece about Chungking; description of the city, population, and life there.
A Footloose Correspondents piece from Paraguay; description of Asuncion, the capital.
The New Yorker, April 24 , 1943P. 68 FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENT'S piece about Chungking; description of the city, population, and life there.
By Ernest O. Mauser The New Yorker, April 24 , 1943P. 68 FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENT'S piece about Chungking; description of the city, population, and life there.
By Oden Meeker and Olivia Meeker The New Yorker, October 11 , 1947P. 80 A Footloose Correspondents piece from Paraguay; description of Asuncion, the capital.
It was planned because of the two rich iron-ore mountains… A wax figure of Thomas E. Dewey, completed before last fall's election, for post-Inauguration exhibition at Mme. Tussaud's gallery, has been melted down and remolded… A Footloose Correspondents piece from Paraguay; description of Asuncion, the capital.
