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...CLEVER DOG. A highly manicured poodle, ((Munito)) was introduced into a circle of ((numbered)) pasteboards. With his teeth Munito picked up the correct cards to solve problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For inquiries in . . . geography, botany and natural history, he selected appropriate alphabet cards. He could identify colors . . . and was adept at dominoes . . . The most logical explanation . . . was Munito's exceptional sense of sound, not smell . . . As Munito circled the cards with an "air of reflection," the trainer would . . . make an almost inaudible clicking noise with his fingernail or a toothpick. This would alert...
...confusion of FTH's image is compounded by its inclusion of a few well-written, powerful works. Sigfried Gold's ironic "Coherent Explanation of Straight While Male Sexuality" has some clever insights, its narrator complaining. "I can't stand straight men: they don't lust after me. All they want to do is win arguments with me or beat me at pool. I don't need that shit." Along a similar vein of psychological insight, Michael Manning, an acclaimed sex comic, explains his art through the statement, "I like the idea of humans and animals having sex together. We think...
...trouble, if it is a trouble, is simply that of any fourth installment. The first wild surge of narrative invention has steadied to a reliable chug. The author's moves are clever and effective, but they are known. Her characters have told the darkest of their secrets. Erdrich's instinct, as the momentum of an anecdote is about to tail off, is to save matters with literary magic. This works, often brilliantly, but it works again and again, which may be a few astonishments too many...
...years old, this clever computer has changed the world...
Ironically, after Guiseppe's death, the English public who had previously demanded punishment redirects its vengeful "mass hysteria." Now the English populace rallies for justice for the prisoners. Gerry goes from being the "Irish scum" prisoner to a celebrity, and Gareth Peirce's clever detective work eventually uncovers the truth...