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...dilemma of the character writing Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is grim, and the book's resolution is grimmer. He goes crazy. The book offers no hope--just a warning. The narrator becomes convinced that everyone around him is crazy. He searches for a mission among a maze of people, but stops communicating with them, just as Pentagon Three once cut itself off from the outside world. The first part of the book's warning is about paranoia. The narrator also passes up his one chance to get away from the corridors after corridors. Once he found...
...catch against some nasty Soviet spies and an even nastier hurricane. Cussler certainly deserves brownie points for originality, but he doesn't win any for intelligibility. Even with a handful of standard love scenes and assassinations thrown in to keep the reader's mind from wandering off amidst a maze of subplots, the book is a hopelessly convoluted mess that only the most die-hard "Mission: Impossible" fan could possibly enjoy...
...Common Market members also charge that their efforts to sell to Japan are hamstrung by nontariff barriers to trade. For example, European auto manufacturers (who export a mere 26,000 cars to Japan, v. the 400,000 the Japanese ship to the Nine) complain about a cumbersome maze of customs procedures, pollution and safey requirements, and baffling testing regulations...
...barriers erected in front of the progress of minority groups do not change in fact; only in kind. For the minority students, saddled with more descriptions, labels, assumptions and expectations than a miner's packhorse with pickaxes, the white college or graduate school can be an almost impermeable maze of trials, tasks, hurdles and psychological leaps. If the challenges to these students were only academic, as they are to the "norm" students, the stage would be a flat arena, with plenty of room for constructive trial and error. Instead, the setting is a labyrinth, where each decision may mean ultimate...
Deep down underneath a maze of statistical formulas designed to compensate for assorted variables such as sex, age, race, geographic location and family status, the definition of poverty rests on one bedrock invariable: people must...