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...flip side of Thomas' courtroom activism is his almost cloistered personal life. Friends say the Anita Hill episode left him "shattered" and "guarded," leading him to shun public appearances. He is now instinctively so averse to the press, they say, that he's no longer much of a newspaper reader. "An experience like that leaves scars," says a friend. "Clarence and his wife have both had to go through a healing process...
...Call a richer newspaper novel. The book would have profited from more to the flavor of a major metropolitan daily newsroom novel. Newspapers attract odd characters like a magnet, but Wetlaufer shares with us only a precious few stories that don't directly relate to the main plot. The reader wonders if there was other news in Miami during the time Sherry was reporting her story...
...Dilbert" needs to grow on the reader. upon first introduction to Scott Adams' strip about an inept scientist/bureaucrat and his fiendish canine, one might find the artwork too primitive, and the dog to be just too darn cruel. however, one soon realizes that the artworks is more stylistic than crude-the strip works partly because of its uniquely flat look. In addition, one starts to actually like the megalomaniacal mutt, Dogbert, and his some time sick sense of humor...
...epics is the Big Island of Hawaii, where last July he watched an eclipse of the sun. The experience, Theroux writes, was akin to "the onset of blindness." When the sun returns, he kisses the woman next to him. "Being happy was like being home," he exults, and every reader will know...
...their names and welcome aboard already on their screens. News and weather data will scroll past as they settle in, followed by the ineluctable buckle-up-for-safety sermon. Next will come a menu with instructions (in four languages) on how to swipe any credit card through the electronic reader on the handset to pay the costs of a phone call...