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...19th century. Each character talks with his or her own particular style and peculiar vocabulary. ("Just eat the bish, you gudda," one sailor scolds another. "He was only foozlowing.") The book offers no glossary and Ghosh offers no apology for the difficulties some readers may have. "The first aspect of India's reality is that it's intensely multilingual," he says. "You have to find rhetorical ways to show that, to show that the experience of language is not transparent...
...That's all well and good, but there are moments when you really do want to look beyond what it means to "puckrow" a "beebee" or tolerate a "badmash chuckeroo." Thus the remarkable aspect of Ghosh's writing - his acute sensitivity to place and historical setting - can also present something of a drawback. The occasionally overzealous nature of his politics is also disappointing in a writer of such intelligence and originality. Here, imperialists are corrupt and bad, and Ghosh's descriptions of some verge on hackneyed: the Ibis' English owner, for instance, expounds upon the divine right of free trade...
...does not necessarily equal a qualified college candidate. That said, they should not act upon that discovery by abolishing consideration of the test without proposing a viable alternative to discriminate between certain college applicants. Flawed though it may be, the SAT, along with the ACT, remains the only standardized aspect of the American college admissions process. Without such a test, it would prove difficult to compare students coming from educational backgrounds as disparate as home school and public school, private and magnet, charter and international. The SAT plays much too large a role in today’s admissions process...
...pause). The expats—seemingly unsuccessful at life and love in their home countries and normally conspicuous at night as they troll the bars with cocky smiles and Hungarian hookers—love Shanghai because Shanghai loves them and their money. They’re another frivoulous aspect of a frivolous city.I have come close to finding the real Shanghai only when walking through a food market alley, and it has led me to believe that the further you can get away from the development that China so highly touts, the closer you can get to something you?...
Like most digital cameras in this class, it comes with an automatic PHD (push here, dummy) mode, which takes gorgeous photos--up to four a second. Every aspect of taking a picture can also be isolated and tweaked, satisfying even the pro. Indeed, Kupcake was so blown away, he might buy one himself. "I could shoot professionally with this frickin' camera," he said, looking at me sadly. With digital cameras improving so fast and getting so cheap, so could...