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That last paragraph was some additional practice for the LSATs if I need to take them again. (E) No error...
...intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned to the city, Wong and the author "huddled in his hotel suite for two days, going over a first draft, one paragraph after another. He had charts of sea tides, timetables for events in chronological order, maps and pictures of places in old and contemporary China. Cornwell is more fastidious about his novels than many writers are about their nonfiction...
...Diane was just born funny," Allen says. "She can take a perfectly straight paragraph and read it and you'll be rolling on the floor. She has unfailing good taste. Her mind is never clouded by popular opinion, the need to score points. I can show her something and say the two greatest writers in the world love it, and she can pick it up and say 'I don't know what's so great about this.' And she'll be right...
...diary entries are haphazard, sometimes only a paragraph long and are burdened with third-hand philosophy and verse that can most charitably be called forced...
Three and one-half pages on Elvis and one paragraph on Groucho [Aug. 29]? Shame...