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Look, I never said I was Huck Finn in the first place, which is a not very bright idea thought up by some blurb writer at the publishing house and maybe some reviewers who weren't into original thought, and second, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype back when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi because they had a whole big river, which is a ready-made metaphor right there, and all I had was this crummy shopping mall in upstate New York. You can sort of float in a mall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FLOAT TRIP | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...shopping period were eliminated, Harvard students would judge their classes based upon the three-sentence blurb in the courses of instruction, CUE guide ratings and the anecdotal evidence of their friends. And this means that in the first week of the semester far more students would find that they are uninterested in the subject matter than now, when students can shop around to decide on their favorite classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Preserve Precious Shopping Period | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

That might be because news of the compromise was buried in a short blurb in Harvard magazine...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: ALUMNI DIVIDED ON ROTC | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...from self-help books to celebrity biographies, from John Grisham thrillers to the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, most narrated by well-known actors (Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenda Jackson, Michael York) and compressed into easy-listening chunks of three or four hours -- "because," as one audio publisher's blurb puts it, "books are long and life is short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Real Tape Turner | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...improbable Remedios, who performs short rituals every so often, each time summoning one of the four elements of tierra, fuego, agua, aire to her, to remind us of her latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like the most simplistic of goddess workshop: "I am she who knows. I am bone woman...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Down to the Caesar Salad | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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