Word: mannerize
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...World, with much of the news of recent elections in South America and India dominated by reports about polls. That is more than a little disturbing. For, as the best pollsters recognize, the deepest questions of life -- or politics, or journalism -- can be probed only in the most primitive manner with the blunt instrument of a poll. Thus readers entering upon stories peppered with numbers and percentage signs should arm themselves with a mental note: POLL AHEAD -- PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK...
...predicated on a bankrupt ideology but that it is so manifestly inegalitarian. In what is supposedly a classless society, life for the masses is a ceaseless hustle to acquire the most basic goods while for party bigwigs, the nomenklatura, it is relatively sweet, thanks to their access to all manner of worldly offerings. With resentments over these inequities rapidly growing as the economy deteriorates, Central Committee members last week reportedly did something that privileged elites rarely do: they voted to give up some of their perks...
...feel we struck a balance, though the policy may be subject to change," says Joseph W. Crooks, of Emory's general counsel's office. "We are restricting the manner of expression, not the expression itself...
VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon (Little, Brown; $19.95). In his first novel since Gravity's Rainbow (1973), a major writer turns his attention to all manner of American zaniness and produces a soaring, comic and visionary tale...
...that the staff position tries too hard to avoid seeming oversolicitous to a "special interest group." It has minimized the issue of homophobia in its attempt to enforce equal treatment under the law. But in doing so it has ignored the fact that The Law only exists in the manner that it is interpreted. Laws and criminals do not exist in and of themselves; they are defined by a society with certain values and certain power structures...