Word: excerpting
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What follows below is a short but important excerpt from the transcripts that have thus far been translated. It contains the testimony of one Eve, who, so the archaeologists claim, was a close female associate of Adam and therefore in one of the best positions to have knowledge of Adam's knowledge of the burglary of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. As will become clear in the text, however, Eve herself was deeply implicated in the burglary thus lending her testimony somewhat dubious credibility...
...death made a hearty feast for The National Enquirer; his countersuit with one of his sources who had charged him with plagiarism found a willing niche in the news pages of the New York Times--this was no mere litery matter; The Ladies Home Journal wanted a blockbuster excerpt; the 25 million readers of that most self respecting Sunday supplement scandal sheet, Parade, were asked why Mailer couldn't let the poor tortured girl rest in Peace? Dick Cavett and Mike Wallace grilled him on their video griddles; and not least of these attentions was the cover of Time Magazine...
From overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic comments, you chose to excerpt out of context a quote critical of China. I wish there weren't such eagerness to discredit this extraordinary country...
...Crimson was nonetheless respected, as we see from this excerpt from the Fiftieth Anniversary Book...
...Populist Mechanics: Demystifying Your Car") offered women some defenses against chauvinistic (or crooked) auto repairmen. An excerpt from Ingrid Bengis' recently published Combat in the Erogenous Zone movingly portrayed one woman's growing rage at men's sexual imperiousness. Author Simone de Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex inaugurated much feminist debate 23 years ago, revealed her waning faith in socialism as a means of gaining rights for women...