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...gets mysteriously knotted to the headboard of her bed. Simon's tadpoles are frozen into an ice-cube tray. Blame seems to rest on Jared, until he uncovers a strange book, a field guide to faeries that identifies the culprits. Turns out faeries are not all Tinkerbell types; the genus encompasses goblins, hobgoblins, brownies, trolls, ogres, dwarfs and sprites, some of them quite intemperate...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...message problem is endemic to Democrats. The party boasts a big tent, but that tent doubles as a big boxing ring, and in the weeks before the election every genus of Democrat--from the Southern pro-gun, antiabortion members of Congress to the Northern pro-choice, gun-control liberals in the Senate--duked it out over how to counter the President's agenda. Liberals argued it was time to get tougher with Bush on Iraq and the economy; moderates, many of whom backed Bush's war resolution and tax-cut proposal, argued it was time to get tougher on liberals...
...alternately and sometimes simultaneously cheerious and sneerious. He wrote children's books, screenplays and a hit song ("Speak Low") for the Broadway show "One Touch of Venus," But his bread-and-butter, which after a while was caviar and Dom Perignon, was magazine work in the light-verse genus. In a 40-year career he wrote for Life and Look, for Harper's and Harper's Bazaar, for Woman's Day and Playboy, and even for Hallmark. And if Sam Walton has asked him to, Nash might have produced verse for Wal-mart, except that to force a rhyme...