Word: chapters
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...about "Goblet of Fire." Like its predecessors, the new novel is heavily dependent on surprises and suspense. Rowlings readers, understandably, resent being tipped off about details before discovering them on their own. But many of them then go back and read the books multiple times. Indeed, the last chapter of "Goblet of Fire," which starts on page 716, is called The Beginning, which looks like a clue telling readers to start over again...
WASHINGTON--It didn't take me long before I was a full-fledged local member. The other members welcomed me with open arms. Or perhaps not open arms but rather knowing nods and quick glances. I didn't even need a letter of introduction from the Boston chapter...
...Which was more difficult: telling your father your book has a chapter about a giant turd or telling...
...from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit, something like a body stocking but with the kind of intimate snugness of a condom" and having a virtual-reality sexperience...
...TERRIBLE TALE A DARK CHAPTER IN A PUBLIC MAN'S HISTORY...