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Librarians give the books mixed reviews. Some find the plots predictable and the prose pedestrian, but others praise the series for attracting children who aren't always comfortable with books. "The reading level is pretty simple, and that's very important in my library, where English is a second language," says Janet Campano, who works at the Chinatown branch of the New York Public ; Library...
Part of the mystery is that King had no need to plagiarize. He dealt himself a gratuitous wound. And what he lifted from others, or failed to attribute, tended to be pedestrian -- a moping prose...
...remember that America is touchy about its lack of literacy; someone must have wanted to stress that American artists can write. Besides, elitism is an extremely dirty word in art circles these days, and whatever else she may be, Holzer is no elitist. Her work is so faultlessly, limpidly pedestrian as to make no demands of any sort on the viewer, beyond the slight eyestrain induced by the LEDs...
...throngs of the faithful, clad in traditional terry-cloth robes, crossed a pedestrian bridge in Mina, a railing gave way under the pressure. Seven worshipers plunged 8 meters, smashing into even greater waves of people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according...
...such pedestrian sentiments were fully reciprocated by a growing part of opinion in East Germany. Citizens there, used to safe and easy jobs, subsidized rents and cheap food, began to panic about the pitfalls of capitalism. They also resented the idea that the fruits of 40 years' labor had proved to be rotten and that East Germans would continue to be, for years to come, the poor relatives of their Western counterparts...