The New Yorker, 2007-10-15
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fiefoe"The Blow-Up Artist" / John Cassidy
__ “When the markets are moving in my favor in a nice, gentle way—never below my initial price—I often think of the ‘Trout Quintet,’ ” he writes. “Another frequent work I hear in the market is Haydn’s Symphony No. 94. . . Right after lunch, or before a holiday, the markets have a tendency to meander up and down in a five-point range above and below the opening. The pattern is similar to the twinkling C-major fifths of Haydn’s symphony.”
"The Countdown" / William Finnegan
__ Ceku went on, a bit stiffly, “I consider it not fair that I should try to get some benefit from my father.” Anyway, he conceded, in postwar Kosovo such plays for sympathy could backfire. “Somebody else lost children,” he said. “That’s worse than losing a father.”
"Parade's End" / James Wood
__ who is “savage with health and armed to the teeth with time.” It is wonderful to take the cliché “armed to the teeth” and combine it with the abstract word “time,” producing a hovering suggestion of a second cliché, this one having to do with old age, being “long in the tooth.” In this novel, and in this phrase, short in the tooth meets long in the tooth.
"Leaving It All Behind" / Anthony Lane
__ Something about the train traveller and the moviegoer catches the eye: both are required to sit with their fellow-men, and to start their journey at a particular time, not of their own choosing. Both are left alone, yet their privacy—tinged with dreaminess—is of a very public kind.
__ the dented ordinariness of which his undear life, like ours, was mostly composed
p.s.: "Yma Dream" is meant to be heard, not read.
p.p.s.: Neither Schjeldahl nor Chris liked Richard Prince's work.
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__ “When the markets are moving in my favor in a nice, gentle way—never below my initial price—I often think of the ‘Trout Quintet,’ ” he writes. “Another frequent work I hear in the market is Haydn’s Symphony No. 94. . . Right after lunch, or before a holiday, the markets have a tendency to meander up and down in a five-point range above and below the opening. The pattern is similar to the twinkling C-major fifths of Haydn’s symphony.”
"The Countdown" / William Finnegan
__ Ceku went on, a bit stiffly, “I consider it not fair that I should try to get some benefit from my father.” Anyway, he conceded, in postwar Kosovo such plays for sympathy could backfire. “Somebody else lost children,” he said. “That’s worse than losing a father.”
"Parade's End" / James Wood
__ who is “savage with health and armed to the teeth with time.” It is wonderful to take the cliché “armed to the teeth” and combine it with the abstract word “time,” producing a hovering suggestion of a second cliché, this one having to do with old age, being “long in the tooth.” In this novel, and in this phrase, short in the tooth meets long in the tooth.
"Leaving It All Behind" / Anthony Lane
__ Something about the train traveller and the moviegoer catches the eye: both are required to sit with their fellow-men, and to start their journey at a particular time, not of their own choosing. Both are left alone, yet their privacy—tinged with dreaminess—is of a very public kind.
__ the dented ordinariness of which his undear life, like ours, was mostly composed
p.s.: "Yma Dream" is meant to be heard, not read.
p.p.s.: Neither Schjeldahl nor Chris liked Richard Prince's work.
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