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...most unreadable, except perhaps to businessmen: interminable tabulations of what some segment of the business scene spends on research, collects in income, earmarks for advertising-all cast in the eye-straining type that spills from electronic computers. Many of News Front's trend stories demand not only reader attention but reader participation: the magazine is forever sending out lengthy questionnaires to its circulation list (60% of the subscribers usually fill them out). If nothing else, News Front qualifies as one of the most exclusive giveaway magazines in print. Publisher Ward vigilantly keeps his subscriber list pure, firmly turns down...
...Englishman is very funny. But by the time Amis lets his ployman homeward plod his weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that he is a pretty dreadful character. "Very angst-producing, being a snob," he confesses to his mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child...
...fair sample. It is larded with arcane phrases like "tip him a settler" (knock him out), epithets like "nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle...
...Marston," the lady inquires of the butler, "has he been getting foxed often?" "Oh, no, ma'am! He has been dipping rather deep, perhaps." Exchanges like this, from the pages of Georgette Heyer's decorous novels, often fox the uninitiated reader...
Today there will be new developments in the fight over the Memorial Drive Underpass. Harvard will not apply for more funds under a federal aid program. The HCUA will issue a report. But you, dear reader, will remain blissfully unaware of all these developments, because tomorrow there will be no Crime...