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This is actually true. Browsing through the alphabetized entries in this novel is not only possible but pleasurable. Under "Brankovich, Avram," for example, a figure of speech is given new life: "The daughter had taken all her best features from her mother, who after birth remained forever ugly." The definition of kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt...
ACCORDING to my Webster's dictionary, the Serbo-Croatian language is a marriage of two immiscible languages, Serbian and Croatian, which still retain individual identities in the form of separate alphabets. Serbian words are written in the Cyrillic alphabet; Croatian words, in the Roman. Milorad Pavic, who is a Yugoslav poet, must be sensitive to this split down the middle of his language. He has written a novel whose conceit is that it is a dictionary of three immiscible languages, with three distinct alphabets, corresponding to the three major religions that have shaped the Western world: Greek (Christian), Arabic (Islam...
...length blond hair and blue eyes that shine from behind jet-black eyelashes. Last year she wrote and illustrated a book (one copy in circulation so far) with the tongue- twisting title Xavier Xanax Excitedly Xeroxes X-Mas Xylophones and X-Rays in Xanadu. It is subtitled A World Alphabet Book, and all 26 letters receive similar treatment. In a blurb about the author, she writes, "Katie Davis lives in Seattle, Washington, in a house of five. And whenever she gets lonely she just goes off to play with her puppy, Taffy . . . and a lot of times her friends...
Perhaps with that thought in mind, residents of Manhattan's lethal "alphabet city" have transformed a rubble-strewn lot into a community garden, with poetry readings and potluck dinners and tiny plots for 107 local gardeners. Some grow food or medicinal herbs: one woman grows a lawn, just so she can come out on Sunday mornings with her deck chair to read the newspaper. "I've lived here 20 years, and we never used to talk to people on the street," says Sandra Kleinman, now in her fourth year of nursing Egyptian onions and Japanese mustard greens. "I've never...
Well, almost. To make a danceable, guaranteed hit, he takes the "New Power Soul" sound and tightens it to make it more traditionally Prince-like due to its lack of instrumentalization. The result: "Alphabet...