Word: paragraphed
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Kamen came to the world of computers reluctantly at first. She had been writing her nutrition books on a typewriter when her husband came home one day in 1982 with a new IBM PC. The first time Kamen tried writing on it, she split a paragraph on the screen and panicked. "I couldn't figure out how to put it together again. The manuals were written by techies, and they were awful." Within two weeks, she was in love. When Kamen and her husband moved from New York City to Novato, Calif., several years ago, she would allow...
...Kavanagh'sintimate knowledge makes for description asaccurate and illuminating as his vocabulary,imbuing this description with creative imaginationdemands a heavy toll in effort. There is a chapterdevoted exclusively to the geological history ofthe Newfoundland coast, pages replicating thedialectical banter of bored men on the open sea,and every other paragraph brings the unmistakablescent of the sea; electric, heavy, changing withthe hours and the wind...
...particularly comical description, the author attempts to emphasize the fact that consciousness "consists of information no less than a person who consumes large amounts of food can be said to consist of food." What follows is a discussion that employs hot dogs as its central motif; the paragraph ends with Norretranders asserting, "Consciousness does not consist of hot dogs but consists of hot dogs that have been apprehended. That is far less complex." Even if such an example does detract from the author's previously-established scientific authority, is nevertheless inspires a welcome bit of comic relief...
...media cover the split of a guy who buys ink by the tankerful? Delicately. In Australia, the big tabloids, which are Murdoch-owned, ran teensy items on inside pages. In Britain, Murdoch's Sun, for whom this type of scandal would normally warrant huge headlines, ran a six-paragraph item on page 10. Its sister paper, the London Times, was equally discreet. The other British publications ran more prominent stories but, in a quaint show of taste, did not gloat. Oh, if only Ted Turner owned a newspaper...
...didn't say it that way, of course. Instead she writes in the second paragraph, "[I]f the President had behaved with comparable insensitivity toward environmentalists, and at the same time remained their most crucial champion and bulwark against an anti-environmental Congress, would they be expected to desert him? I don't think...