Word: cheez-its
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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Smiley writes of what she knows, and she seems to know just about everything-the incubation of eggs, Cheez-It diets, tenure committees. Most of all, she knows men, women and the distance between them. Most men, she notes, are "competent in groups that mimicked the playground, incompetent in groups that mimicked the family"; many of her women assess love interests in terms of self-interest. Much of the fun of the book, in fact, comes from the way in which a canny student of human nature trains her eye on people who know nothing about any kind of nature...
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