Word: oroverwrought
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...kindest things to say about JohnBurnham Schwartz ’87’s new novel, “TheCommoner,” are the things that it isn’t.It isn’t over-long, over-complicated, oroverwrought; it isn’t slow or boring; itisn’t bad.The trouble is, it isn’t particularlygood, either. And if not for its compellingsource material—the story of EmpressMichiko, the first commoner to marryinto the Japanese royal family—thenovel would be much worse. Despite itsvivid subject, Schwartz’s bland...
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