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...father-in-law, Bernie Alazar, who is experiencing the progressive deterioration of Alzheimer's disease. Nothing can save Bernie in the long run, but this story, the best in the book, provides moments of touching recognition and redemption. Shacochis inserts, with no visible effort, an extraordinary amount of detail into his short fiction. The fashion in stories these days runs toward attenuated apercus. None of these will be found here, only pieces that are unstylishly generous and memorable...
...reason. Sciarra ran openly as a surrogate for his deposed brother and won by an almost 2-to-1 ratio. But Federal Judge Harold A. Ackerman said the court-appointed trustee for the local would retain his "investigative capacities," and gave the new leaders 60 days to report in detail on how they intend to run an honest shop...
...listening. Today readers search works like The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science and Today and Tomorrow and . . . for advice on space programs and the greenhouse effect. Many of them go directly to the source with their questions. If Asimov has respect for the interrogators, he answers thoughtfully, in detail. If not, he has a habit of assuming an abstracted, extraterrestrial manner, as if he had a lunch date on the other side of time...
Using current data from the state Board of Registration in Medicine, the consortium study provides the greatest detail to date on the availability of doctors in Massachusetts by region and by medical speciality. The findings suggest wide variations in the number of specialists statewide...
...alphabetized entries in this novel is not only possible but pleasurable. Under "Brankovich, Avram," for example, a figure of speech is given new life: "The daughter had taken all her best features from her mother, who after birth remained forever ugly." The definition of kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt to create a written form for Slavic...