Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although very well and smoothly written, The Shad Treatment does have its flaws. The long passages of description tend to become dull, as does a long excerpt from Mac's father's testimony before a Congressional committee. But it reads quickly, and to some, may make a powerful argument for staying out of politics. It does, however, make a strong case for electing Shadwell governor this year, and the publicity the novel is receiving in the Washington and Richmond press may make that possible. The real question now is whether Epps will follow The Shad Treatment with another novel...
...Carney. The first thing Mrs. Jou noticed was that the truckers were all standing by the magazine rack, taking in the heavy-duty porno mags. The first thing Carlo noticed was the de luxe C.B. next to the rack into which one of the truckers was reading an excerpt from the Hustler letters column...
...there is a point shortly after beginning A Book of Common Prayer when it becomes obvious that, notwithstanding Harper's excerpt, this is not just another Patricia Hearst fixation. Indeed, Harper's selection from the book does not do Didion's novel justice. The book centers on a wealthy family--a radical chic lawyer, with a Warhol silk screen of Mao in the living room, rather than a newspaper magnate--and their newly-converted revolutionary daughter, whose rhetoric makes little sense and at best serves to separate her from her wealthy background, the FBI and a steamy, dull, white-washed...
...other newspaper, editors can't be blamed for wanting to lay some of the burden down-like the full text of treaties, which possibly interested 5% of the readers. But the general reader now misses valuable documentation that he might be happy to read. The Times merely excerpted Saul Bellow's Nobel acceptance speech. It played as the day's most important story the Supreme Court decision on low-cost housing in the suburbs. The story was well reported and analyzed by Lesley Oelsner, but the Times printed not one full sentence from either the majority...
...they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed an excerpt from The Nutcracker. Said Hunt: ''We have to involve people, and we simply must be more creative in asking them to get involved...