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...diary and line drawings of the day and troubled contemporary Tanzania. Glenn's words were not quite up to his pictures, though. By contrast with ABC's Project Africa or with Stanley's own eloquence, the Glenn chronicle at times sounded as elementary as My Weekly Reader...
...from Times Book Critic Eliot Fremont-Smith, who found O touched with "tragic grandeur" and employing "erotic materials" to stimulate the reader to a "total, authentic literary experience...
...voracious reader of everything from Shakespeare to detective fiction -which he uses to "turn off"-Gilmore has managed to become a recognized authority on the Byzantine period. His psychiatrist wife-the mother of their two grown children-owns a superb 600-piece collection of Japanese art. For all that peripheral culture, however, he is not much good at small talk; when he entertains, he especially likes to have students over in an effort to get closer to what they are thinking...
...conferences are held, where new talents and old reputations are momentarily warmed in the rays of editors' adjectives. As in baseball, it may turn out to be a long, long season, but if only half the new year's big names and projects fulfill their promises, the reader may not have time to follow either baseball or politics...
...however, I prefer palmistry, for it is a completely unique system. There are about three billion people in the world today, which means there are roughly six billion palms. There is no single pair of these palms that is identical, which means that every palm is unique. If the reader will look, for example, at both of his palms, he will undoubtedly notice at least some differences in the conformation of the lines. It is from these lines that I can tell a great deal about a person...