Word: sillier
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...lodging business is one of those industries that can't stand prosperity. It wasn't long ago that lodging was an absolute dog, the ugly consequence of silly tax laws and even sillier real estate investors. Prior to 1986, anyone could invest in a hotel and recover up to $3 of write-offs for every $1 invested. From 1983 to 1985, the industry added more than 140,000 new rooms annually--but far fewer customers...
...fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole, is a modern counterpart of Franklin. Further and sillier, he imagines that Reepah bears some resemblance (or shows some useful contrast) to Franklin's wife Lady Jane...
That's about it. Not another idea or phenomenon disturbs the flow -- that's probably the right word -- of the narration. As with any extended porn, the book is a highly elaborate tease, sillier and more exotic with each chapter. It's not ugly stuff, as such things go; Strine isn't a rapist or even a thief, though he does steal peeks. Ogling is really all he's interested in, and all that Baker seems to feel readers need to sustain their interest. That's fairly patronizing and more than a little feebleminded, though maybe he is right. Still...
Being a devoted daughter of Mother Radcliffe, I see no evil, and much good, in the continued existence of Radcliffe in its present form, and I find myself quite incapable of combating some of the sillier arguments against it. In order to read what I have to say, therefore, you may have to try thinking on my terms...
...foresee problems of propriety in letting a man bunk with her boy. Then again, the rich are different, and these are rich, nearly famous people. The mother's second husband is a rental-car magnate. The father is co-author of the script for one of the summer's sillier comedies, and supposedly the idea for the film was suggested by the boy himself. In one aspect, though, this brood is like many other postnuclear families: last week a judge ordered the father to pay $68,804 in overdue child support...