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When Elmore Leonard writes a thriller called Get Shorty, you know he's going to get Shorty. Leonard does not fool around. It does occur to the reader, a couple of pages before the end of the last chapter, that no character named Shorty has yet appeared. But Leonard is our funniest and most reliable folklorist of low, middle and upper-middle lowlife -- the kind of human lint that accumulates in society's navel. He knows his business, doesn...
...million citizens had piled up a mountain of unspendable savings. They also yearned for the good things so long denied them: cars, stereos, foreign travel. But when currency union finally came last week, East Germans turned out to be surprisingly tightfisted. If it is true that a fool is soon parted from his money, then East Germany has mighty few fools...
...often see such would-be Ph.Ds crouched over books with titles like Proust and the Politics of Body, their facial muscules taut with what seems to be intense intellectual eagerness. Don't let that lean and hungry look fool you, though--it's due as much to physical as to metaphysical causes. In other words, most grad students don't get enough...
...fool a doctor, it can fool any parent and it certainly can fool parents who rely on spiritual healing because it gets worse, it gets better," Klieman said...
...such an act," he says. "I also noticed that most of my friends, the people I had come to feel closest to at Stanford, were lawyers." As a lark, Turow decided to take the Law School Admission Test; he came back from the exam convinced he had made a fool of himself. In fact, he scored well enough to gain admission to Harvard and Yale law schools. He submitted The Way Things Are to some publishers and, as he expected, received rejections. "Even if that novel had been published, I would have gone to law school." He chose Harvard, chiefly...