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What is it like reading Bissell in the comfort of one's living room? It is like reading the first paragraph of this review, over and over. Can you imagine a book written like this review? The self-indulgent asides, the outrageous similes, the conversational tone--all these become pretty deadening after a while. And by the time Bissell comes out with "a temper like a keg full of rattle-snakes" we know we have had one simile too many. The tolerance limit is 17 pages a day. And only members of Richard Bissell's immediate family are advised...
Unheartened by a single paragraph...
...mention of his exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, was already deleted from the official history of the state's executive mansion. Now New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54, blue-penciled the 21-word last paragraph from his official biography in the revised edition of the Legislative Manual and New York Red Book, thereby eliminating all reference to the fact that he was ever married, had five children, and is a grandfather eight times over...
...contenders deep in political combat, consider their personalities, quote their remarks, judge their style and assess their chances-all against a background of what currents of opinion are stirring among the voters. These stories, as our readers know, can be as terse and tight as a one-paragraph note, or as comprehensive as last week's cover story on the close race in Pennsylvania. For the amount of space they occupy, these political notes require a great deal of footwork and judgment by correspondents in the field. And they take considerable skill in the writing, to catch the peculiar...
Then he summed up his indictment by defending his own eight years in office in the most succinct and devastating paragraph of the campaign to date...