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...regular reader of blogs, or indeed of any kind of news website, you've probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there's no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Who has time to keep visiting these sites in the hope of finding a fresh item? But as most blog readers these days know, there's a solution to these problems, and it's simple. Actually, it's called Real Simple Syndication, or RSS - you've probably seen...
...classic intellectual who sometimes speaks in antiquated constructions—“I shall not comment,” he says repeatedly—Harper is an avid reader and active member of the Jane Austen Society of North America...
...very major way, she has changed in terms of her confidence level. When Helen projected the image that used to be in ads back in the '60s and '70s of this really almost haughty-looking sophisticated woman, that was the fantasy in your mind, if you were a Cosmo reader, of how you were going to be. Let's face it: Back then, women weren't making that kind of money. They didn't have the same number of choices. The fact that they were in this position of ruling the world - it looked like they...
...What we call ourselves is the bible for young single women who want to live large and love large. The reader wants candid sexual advice and relationship advice, and that's part of our trademark. But she also loves the over-the-top quality. So if Jay Leno isn't mocking it, or doing a spoof on it, or reading our coverlines - if he's not doing that regularly, maybe I've pulled back too much...
...doubt it. The novel offers an interesting allegory of the twentieth-century reader defamiliarized from his culture, attempting to reassemble his history and life...