Word: pleasants
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Well, you wouldn't know they were keen from the behavior of government officials or the cowed population on the street. The minders tried to keep the journalists cooped up inside the Hotel Koryo - clean and pleasant enough, with good Korean food, Japanese beer and working phone lines. The diplomats staying at the hotel were told in their pre-trip briefing in D.C. that they would be in the part of the hotel that was bugged and had surveillance, while the journalists were in the bug-free tower...
...songs on Never Enough Time stumble through incoherent, seemingly random lines like "A rock thrown through/The rear window/They took my socks" in "Smash the Car" and "I keep trying to clean my room/There's a coffee cup in my underwear drawer" in the title track. So while surely a pleasant enough listen in Club Passim or on a walk through the Square, Nate Borofsky's Never Enough Time will likely be relegated to the closet corner. C+ -Stacy A. Porter...
Westland is a pleasant city of about 90,000 middle-class folk who work close to home - mainly in the car business - and rarely find a reason to make the half hour's drive east across suburban Wayne County to Detroit. I originally went to Westland because it's the land of the Reagan Democrat and in 1996 its 55,000 registered voters mirrored the statewide presidential vote. How Westland went was how Michigan went - and this year Michigan is crucial...
...trouble getting up in the morning," Rose says. "It was an ordeal to wake Harvey up. It's the only time of day when Harvey's not pleasant...
...traced back to the death of the author's mother when he was 17, a loss that left him feeling abandoned and needy for a woman's protective, all-forgiving love. "Bellow," Atlas remarks, "wasn't a nurturing person." On the evidence presented here, it does seem more pleasant to be Bellow's reader than his spouse...