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Surprise, fellas. The fitness boom has grown for a decade, and improving the body has become an enduring, and perhaps historically significant, national obsession. These days, even the wise guys order a second Perrier. On any given day in the Republic this year, a record 70 million Americans-almost half...
But most of the time it works. White cleverly knocks the values of a bureaucratic society in an imaginary letter to the tax collector, and the nosiness of certain do-gooders in a similar missive to the ASPCA. The morbid obsession with news is caricatured in the (very funny) story...
Policymakers in the nation's capital had been stunned by the news, and the reasons why went well beyond the widespread admiration of the visionary Egyptian leader. Foreign policy has not been the Administration's strong point because the White House has been concentrating on pressing domestic concerns...
MC CULLOUGH CANNOT BE FAULTED for trying a completely new style or subject matter. But in An Indecent Obsession, she contents herself with creating the bare shell of a potentially riveting story. In describing Sergeant Jones' tendency to adopt "strays" as friends, she introduces a whole range of possible relationships...
Ultimately, we conclude that in developing her outline for the nove, McCullough never fully defined her theme or her goals. We could have accepted her conception of the hospital base as a nondescript, cardboard background against which the characters of Ward X were meant to shine and attract our undivided...