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...beauty, a classic-but all wrong for the Second Annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which asks contestants to try their hand at composing truly atrocious opening sentences to hypothetical bad novels. Says San Jose State University English Professor Scott Rice: "We want the kind of writing that makes the reader...
...believe the party and chairman Mao...I should examine myself thoroughly "Throughout Liang Heng's autobiography Son of the Revolution, his father's response to the repeated political catastrophes that afflict the Liang family continues to be an expression of faith in the party and Mao for a Western reader, this acquiescence stretches credibility at first, but in the context of the powerful mass ideology described throughout the book it seems natural...
...upon exchange rates, nearly a dollar short. Last week, however, at some 2,000 newsstands from Scandinavia to Saudi Arabia, a new daily arrived: the Wall Street Journal/Europe, which is edited in Brussels, printed in The Netherlands and delivered before noon to about a dozen countries. Said first-day Reader Paul Home, an economist for Smith Barney in Paris: "It has acres of coverage, and it is going to give the Financial Times a run for its money...
...Freudian psychology to touch that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into places where others were forbidden to look, but at least the reader can hear the hellish reports...
...subject easily worthy of its own story, the phrase strikes the reader as inappropriate and distracting--or at best ill-timed. But at other times, the reverse of such superficiality creates an equal problem. Naylor seems to fear that she will be misinterpreted or over-simplified, so she overstates her messages, diminishing the power with which she initially invested her words. She must yet learn the force of understatement, of latency, for when she relaxes and less her reader work at subtly stated subject matter, her style is a promise fulfilled...