Word: chaptered
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...Hill had accused Thomas of sexual harassment, which led to the hearings she was covering. Moreover, Totenberg said one reason she took the charges against Thomas seriously was that she herself had once been sexually harassed. That disclosure led to a public reopening of a painful, 20-year-old chapter in her life...
...interesting premise, but one which Arenas handles clumsily. It seems as if he had an idea, linked that idea with a series of images, strung the chapters together, and called it a book. Unfortunately, there is that much lack of subtlety here. First, Juan's desire to reveal this spiritual door is hardly believable--Arenas rarely mentions it except as a device to justify Juan's spending time in the tenants' apartments. It is tacked on and never explored except in a throwaway chapter which concludes the novel. This is the chief example of Arenas's grand ambition to pack...
...come off dry and forced, as if the author thinks of them as mere examples of his main theme. And once he is finished with these images, he scarcely ever returns to to them, as if he writes from a checklist, crossing off the images as he completes each chapter...
...house behavior. "When a new family moves into a house," he says truthfully, "water begins to drip from the chandelier." The new householder either pays local artisans or ruins things himself. Owen doesn't exactly tell you how, but he gives you enough information (in the "Fear of Lumber" chapter) so that the guys in bib overalls at the lumberyard won't sneer. He is especially good on roof slopes and pitches and household electricity. Owen strums his mandolin in praise of electric miter saws ("Yeah, if you can afford one," says a young carpenter who leafed through this book...
...Angeles Chapter of N.O.W. called Ellis's book "a how-to novel on the torture and dismemberment of women," as if such a manual would create new psychos. Richard E. Snyder, chairman of Simon & Schuster, quickly caved in to the feminists and canceled his company's publication of American Psycho in the name of "taste." Amanda Urban, Ellis's agent, characterized the cancellation as "a giant corporation [Paramount Communications, which owns Simon & Schuster] responding to prepublication controversy and strong-arming its publishing division into abandoning its own tradition of fearless publishing...