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...mugger. The subject brings various expectations. A certain horror-fascination at getting in on the other side of urban America's living fear; the noncerebral prospect of a bloody how-to guide; perhaps a fast freak-show visit into the mind of an animal. The one thing a reader does not ex, pect is a troubling, memorable encounter with a human being. Yet that is precisely what James Willwerth produces. To enter this mugger's world means that inexorably, as one of the mugger's friends put it, "you don't think about laws. The way he thinks...
Paradise Lost's second major flaw is Rothschild's writing style. While the book is often intelligible, barrages of jumbled sentences and creative grammar make the reader question her very analytical ability. ("From the mid 1910s, sustained by national machine fever, the auto investment boom swerved higher and higher.") Unfortunately, she is not alone in this regard. Nader's reports are notoriously unreadable, and many of today's most valuable contributions to the field of corporate responsibility are disguised in language which can only be intended to impress the reader by confusing him. It is more than annoying that some...
...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...
Macdonald explains to her and to the reader: "I've always specialized in negative criticism-literary, political, cinematic, cultural-because I've found so few contemporary products about which I could be 'constructive' without hating myself in the morning." If Macdonald is disappointed by American culture, he is "appalled" by American politics. His "time-tested anarchist principles" have made him almost as hard on fellow leftists as on Goldwater Republicans, and perhaps hardest of all on liberals. Drawing from the back files of Politics, the superb little magazine he edited and published (and often practically wrote...
...MORE objectionable than the advertisements themselves has been Gallo's way of doing business--something that the reader never sees, but that The Crimson must contend with...