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MANY GOOD NOVELS take place from within a character's mind. Most of Crime and Punishment, for example, is seen through Raskolnikov's eyes. And while Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is told in the third person, there is no real narrator, causing the reader to slip from mind to mind with no perceptible voice to bridge the gaps. All that floating free sometimes can give readers mental seasickness. To avoid this, most authors use plot for ballast. The plot structures the thoughts, the thoughts give added resonance to the "real events." In A.N. Wilson's Wise Virgin, however...
...lead was not to last long. Warren began to slip on questions that some might have considered easy, like "Where is "Saturday Night Live's Conehead family from?" (France, not England). Mike, meanwhile, captured the lead...
...Slip. Sliding away all over Soldiers Field, the Crimson manhandled a B.U. squad many had thought would he a good test before Saturday's showdown...
...only six weeks to get his message across to a public that had barely heard of him before the Iowa caucuses (in early February, only 15% of Democratic voters could name him as a candidate). The intense magnification of instant celebrity made even Hart's slightest slip look like a lurch and sent voters scurrying into the safer, more familiar embrace of Mondale...
...operation might have been torn from the pages of the Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré's Middle Eastern thriller. Three young Palestinian terrorists slip across the Lebanese border into Israel, where a man with a Lebanese passport and a woman with one from the U.S. supply them with weapons. Then, on a sunny morning last week, the three drive a rented red Autobianchi up crowded King George V Street in West Jerusalem. Two of them enter a sporting-goods store and, in Arab-accented English, nervously ask to try on some jeans...