Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only two to three sentences per paragraph. Have a catchy lead...
...eponymous narrator, a self-contained middle-aged law professor at Harvard, introduces himself in the opening paragraph with passive-voiced modesty: "Relationships did not stick to me." The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect, whom Max remembers as the campus Lothario; and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege...
...record that prompts high expectations, which is exactly what Painton's colleagues have. "What Priscilla brings to the table," says White House correspondent Michael Duffy, "is the relentless attention that you want in an editor about every paragraph, as well as a reporter's eye for the new detail. It's quite a mix." Indeed it is, and with Painton in charge of business coverage, we look forward to a lot more than a paper trail...
...final untruth appeared in the last paragraph of the article. It indicated that there are no museum attendants interested in stepping forward to represent the attendants to the Local 254 labor union to which they belong...
...printing error, an article on page 3 of Friday's newspaper was cut off. In the final paragraph of the article, which was about a rent control trial in Boston, Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh, an opponent of rent control, explained why he thinks rent control is a political payoff. "Because I offered to subsidize your college tuition," he told a Crimson reporter, "you'd vote...