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Shin says he took a calculus exam last winter with a reader who was not familiar with the integral sign, and he contested the grade he received on it. Dunne also says she took an exam with a reader who could not recognize a mathematic symbol...
...Simple Prose Coefficient is, well, simple. A score of 9.9 indicates that a casual reader in an enclosed space where jet engines are being tested at 30- second intervals will catch virtually every nuance. (A score of 10 is impossible, reserved for the realm of television game shows or the news columns of USA Today...
...Mayor Ed Koch, candidate for U.S. Senate, she fell from grace with a thud. Although the ending of the Bess Mess is known -- she was acquitted of bribery charges stemming from her affair with a married man -- it is a tribute to Shana Alexander's storytelling that the reader believes at points along the way that Myerson and those around her could be spared the sorrow that ultimately engulfs them...
...critic tries to write carefully and stylishly, deriving a great deal of pleasure from the finished work, should that pleasure extend to the criticisms themselves? Both the writer and the reader have to separate the process of finding fault from the process of writing well--too much gleeful panning begins to sound suspiciously sadistic...
Although a review is not a suitable substitute for seeing a production, we do not believe it is a waste of space to tell people "what a Beckett production is like to watch." There are some Crimson reader who, in fact, do not know what a Beckett play is "like to watch," and context within a review helps inform them...