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...bold, comma-less sentences flow as monotonously as the lives of men in the cylinder. But they irreproachably state facts, they are as mercilessly objective as could be demanded, they are full sentences just as surely as those are really human beings in the strange hell they create. In this respect Beckett has backed away from the run-on, non-syntactical fragments of his last major prose work, the novel How It Is. His current style would be hardly tolerable for writer or reader if it were sustained much beyond the length of The Last Once, a fact which...
This is the author's longest, most ambitious book, but like her others it is meandering, reflective and unromantic -low on plot, long on thoughtfulness. There is, however, one new disconcerting element. The prose is notably fussier than usual. If there were a Comma Prize, Margaret Drabble would win in a walk. ∙Martha Duffy
...delusions about their profession which mark some of their colleagues. "Good newspapering" was the goal and that meant an accurate, entertaining, well laid-out edition written for its readers--not for other newspapermen or for the reporters' sources. Charlie Ball, the imaginative City Editor, once tried to have the comma keys removed from the office typewriters when a tendency appeared among reporters to describe through strings of adjectives rather than through verbs...
Soviet Seamen. Europe and Africa were bracing last week for the arrival from Asia Minor of Vibrio cholerae, a comma-shaped bacillus that is the cause of the first serious outbreak of cholera in several years. So far, more than 3,000 cases, including at least 100 resulting in death, have been reported in a dozen countries along an arc that stretches from Dubai on the Persian Gulf to Accra on the west coast of Africa...
Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...