Word: meats
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Percy's ignorance, mitigated only by a spotty familiarity with a wide range of writing on language, is no asset. The meat of his hinted-at theory is a rediscovery of Charles Peirce's linguistic philosophy. Percy says Peirce has been completely overlooked by modern linguists. His ignorance of the literature hurts him here--Henning Andersen, for one, has used a Peircean model of language acquisition in his work in generative phonology--and it hurts him everywhere he tries to argue on the linguists own turf. Percy adopts the jargon of the professionals and scholars without the sense, and ultimately...
...private train was slowly chugging across Nevada one day last week on the final stretch of a six-hour trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The 150 passengers, guests of West Coast Mobster "Big Jim" Valenti, had lunched on a buffet of "selected Sicilian meat and cheese cuts," and they were looking forward to an evening at Valenti's hotel speakeasy, The Boiler Room. Big Jim, trigger-tempered head of the notorious "Doo Dah" gang, had arranged the party for the opening-night floor show starring his bride, a former Detroit showgirl named Boo Boo O'Hare...
...young woman who narrates Fresh Meat/ Warm Weather is eagerly honest about everything: her childhood in a family of Jack Mormons (those who do not keep "the Word of Wisdom"); an early marriage that produced two daughters and a desperate infidelity; flight from Salt Lake City to sinful Los Angeles; a second marriage to an aspiring musician who hurries back to the car after his wedding meal so he won't miss the Top 100 on the radio...
...CHARACTERS are always the meat of an Austen novel, and Sanditon starts off with an ample and promising cast. Arthur Parker, to all appearances a hardy young man, is first encountered huddled by the fire. "We should not have had one at home," he apologizes to Charlotte, "but the sea air is always damp. I am not afraid of anything so much as damp." But "Another Lady," unfortunately, cannot sustain the kind of dialogue in which the characters betray their own follies. Midway through the book, extensive descriptions of Charlotte's growing feelings for her Prince Charming, and a plot...
...next day was the meat and potatoes of the competition, approximately 16 miles of speed work, jumping and endurance. Dr. Dennis O'Keefe, mastermind of the stadium jumping course, explained some of the thought behind the design of a jumping course. "We're not out to get the riders but instead to present them with imposing inviting and jumpable obstacles," he said...