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...furious battle in Congress that will test the depth of George Bush's commitment to nuclear power. "Congress is risk averse," says a House staff member. "The public doesn't like nuclear energy, and it doesn't want the right of a public hearing taken away." A careful reader of the public mood, Bush has so far shown little willingness to put up much of a fight for his program. Even chief of staff John Sununu, a former engineer who pushed hard for Seabrook when he was New Hampshire's Governor, has shown at least as much interest in blocking...
...potential. He and his co-author and wife, Susan Tifft, a TIME associate editor, have induced virtually all the members of this tortured family to expose seemingly every intimate detail, as if in some ritual of confession and humiliation to make up for all the years of privilege. The reader is exposed to reckless drug use and irredeemable boozing, to a daughter's experiments in group sex and a now dead son's alleged attempt at an incestuous rape -- even to summaries of children's grade school report cards and prep school fraternizing. No fact, it appears, is too intrusive...
...mean the kind of reading one does to keep sane, to touch other intelligences, to absorb a little grace. In Vietnam the soldiers said, "He is a man you can walk down the road with." They meant, a man you can trust when the road is very / dangerous. Every reader knows there are certain books you can go down the road with...
...book that is entirely dialogue risks boring the reader with the lack of action. Tuck avoids this problem by filling the novel with interesting anecdotes, digressions and ironic twists. The reader might occasionally wish that one of the women would have to answer call waiting or otherwise break the tedium, but these moments are rare. For the most part, the reader remains riveted despite the tenuous plot...
...like ineptitude? I am unfamiliar with The Crimson's comp process for its arts staff, but surely the most prestigious college daily in the country must be able to procure writers with a better grasp of basic written English prose. These enormous gaffes almost distract the careful and intelligent reader from other, comparatively minor affronts to the English language, such as the unfortunate mixed metaphor "drowning out dramatic content...