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...breezy and enjoyable style, although it is not particularly complex or challenging. Again, maybe the one-sidedness of the characters stems more from the lack of any sort of complication in the plot or of the novel as a whole. Lyons has not made much of an effort to broaden or expand his characters--each is as constant and predictable as the weather in a coolly air-conditioned room...
...broaden the context: never rise to a provocation, especially on that subject. Do not! Turn aside temptation. Go deeply Zen. Repeat a mantra. Think of Rhett Butler at Ashley Wilkes' place early in Gone With the Wind, when he confronts the naive Southern glory-talk. Clark Gable bows slightly and ironically and works his mouth in that sly, urbane way, saying, with a tricky formality of self-effacement, "I apologize for all my shortcomings...
Moreover, the admissions office must continue its efforts to broaden the applicant pool in socio-economic terms. Though Harvard like to brag that 70 percent of the student body is on financial aid, this figure is deceptive in that it includes students with loans and outside sources of aid. A full 47 percent of the student body is thus actually defined as "no need" by the Office of Admissions and Financial...
Together, Daimler and Chrysler have a good product and market fit, filling in each other's weaknesses. Because of its dependence on North American sales, Chrysler needs greater international exposure for its products. And Daimler could stand to broaden its Mercedes product line with more mass appeal. But how that will play out beyond theory is still unclear...
Fusion and "smooth" jazz certainly haven't burnished strings' reputation. But with the music's more ambitious players looking for ways to broaden jazz's sonic palette after a decade dominated by neotraditionalism, strings are back (the hipster vogue for lounge music probably hasn't hurt). The boomlet began with last year's McCoy Tyner recording of Burt Bacharach tunes--an appropriate enough context--and continues with new albums by Wynton Marsalis and the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, both on Columbia. Marsalis' record, The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Vol. 5, is his first standards...