Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book is a result of Morris' style. Quaint and engaging at first, her sentences meander through her paragraphs like a peaceful country road winding its way through the hills of Denmark. Yet, after a hundred pages of strolling through the highways and byways of Europe, the laid-back pace of the prose begins to grate on the nerves. Morris seems almost the quintessential kindly, old British matron and as a result, listening to her drone on is like having an especially long lunch with your grand-mother. She usually has good stories to tell, but, boy, does she ramble...
There certainly is no failure to entertain in A Certain Justice, her fourteenth novel. True, P.D. James rips off Agatha Christie to an appalling degree, but at least she does it well. The novel moves at a lightning pace, keeping the reader guessing with its red herrings and cleverly placed twists...
Reason to Have Second Thoughts: If growth continues at this pace, expect 61,000 neighbors...
...forecasts of U.S. output next year need to be lowered half a percentage point or so. Post-Asia, Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics, a market and economic analytical firm, foresees a 2.5% rise in gross domestic product, down from 3.6% this year but near the pace many economists think can be sustained year after year. He expects inflation to creep up--but from only...
...make up for the thinly drawn characters and lagging plot, director Les Mayfield keeps the flubber and the film moving at a thunderous pace. It almost seems like a filmed amusement park ride at times, a roller coaster of frenetic special effects that must hurdle the obstacles of a lifeless plot. Yet the pace is brisk enough to make up for any of the slow stretches--there's always the glimpse of another gooey dance scene in the near future...