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...mind and his body, by the way). None of which was much use to the show's water-cooler punditocracy. Right now, viewers are looking forward at the survivors, not backward at the losers. There was some illumination of Rodger and Elisabeth - it seems neither is the guileless character actor we suppose them to be - and Jerri got her singing audition for her agent to flog back in L.A. And the show opened with a funny bit about Colby snoring away Ogakor's first night in camp...
...President Bush qualified the shift from his campaign promise with the almost charmingly guileless explanation that he'd failed to take notice of the fact that carbon dioxide is not listed as a pollutant in the 1970 Clean Air Act. This by-the-book rationalization is, of course, entirely at odds with the growing consensus among scientists that carbon gases are causing global warming, and puts the U.S. on a collision course with most of the international community, which has been pressing, through the Kyoto Accord on Climate Change, to curb carbon-gas outputs...
...little disappointed that didn't sink in," she says. "I'm not sure that applies to fourth graders. They go in guileless and do the best they...
Neil Rudenstine's taller shadow, Fineberg is even-keeled and unflappable where his boss is disarmingly guileless. Fineberg is nothing if not deliberate. One colleague dubs this physician's demeanor "bedside manner." To most central administrators, his controlled manner is admirable...
True to his guileless prose, Schulze is "not inventing any of it." Yet it would be quite reductive to label his language as pure Americana. It is American in that it is stripped-down, bare of many Old World pretensions, but Simple Stories departs from our modern literary tradition in its lack of sensationalism, redeeming, that Schulze's unadorned language is unadulterated by derogatory shock filler...