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… lover, I said. My mother wrote to say she had big welcome home plans, had arranged for another doctor to be on … gardening gloves, and together we ripped out the dying annuals. She had the hands of an Irish potato farmer, and for a … I was to get a summer job to help pay. I’d value my studies more that way. She hung her beeper in a plastic bag …
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… who want a sanctioned church wedding without a genuine commitment of faith. And he targets the American bridal … looked like in the Spain of the 1930s. Divided into case studies, the book studies the Pueblo Español of 1929 (still a … World, by Charles Peters. Public Affairs, July 2005. $26 The subtitle breathlessly says it all. Peters, a longtime …
… is one thing; but this American phenomenon of books of composite authorship expounding So-and-so’s “Theory of this” and “Theory of that” has very little to recommend it. Now the learned gentlemen who contributed their … against volumes of joint authorship, designed as memorials for philosophical figures who need and desire no …
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… to be friends with a children’s librarian. Without the recommendation of someone who sees what gets published under … Knopf chose to market Zusak’s novel towards a younger audience, at least in the United States, but for a story set … which might be lost on younger readers. And then there is also the prose, without doubt representing a fluidity of …
Wide-Angle Shot: Return to Snowy River When she leaves her father for him, the landscape changes— the incredible drop-offs at their feet, the pointed after pointed ranges, near-bald with stones— aren’t just a way of not showing sex, its monumental …
… and harmonious setting of the Louvre, went up a faits accomplis . Still, city fathers—or are they stepfathers by … much of the rest of middle Paris, probably by way of guilty compensation, sandblasting many of the standard landmarks, … the victim list mounts; it simply likes the arrangement. It also likes its TV (where I have seen no ads against drunk …