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...strictly necessary, and a heroine, Helene, who suffers from a superfluity of accent marks in hers. A lot of ink is wasted just getting these characters on the page. Given its initial investment, Bantam might have urged Beauman to save money by calling her romantic leads Ed and Helen. Anyhow, Edouard is impossibly rich and handsome; Helene is impossibly beautiful; together they are . . . a word comes to mind but then vanishes in the general miasma of implausibilities and sex, which is regularly rapturous and accompanied by sensations "smothering any ability to think...
Most people don't even turn for this guy. He's kind of shy, the kind of bum who looks guilty when he's shaking you down so it's easy to figure that he doesn't deserve your quarter anyhow. His is an apologetic, bad boy look: "Sorry, Mom, I'm a bum. Can I have my quarter...
...Prudhomme, he ain't got nothin' to worry 'bout. You can't make Cay-john food outside Lou'sian', anyhow. Monsieur Proudhomme, he come sit on you. It's de truf...
Viewed from this vantage point, or rather lack-of-vantage point, the game was stripped of mere score and time constraints (I couldn't read the scoreboard, anyhow). Instead, good battled evil in a decidedly uneven match...
...says that employers "have gone through a mental barrier that was blocking them before. What was that barrier? The barrier was that it was a private matter. The barrier was that it was not very important. The barrier was that there was not anything to be done about it anyhow. The barrier was that it was a societal problem and not a work-related problem. There was a whole series of barriers that kept the companies from moving, and they are all falling down...