Word: smorgasbords
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Denying the possibility of a plot, Kosinski relies on this smorgasbord of exciting incidents and fascinating characters to retain the reader's interest, unfortunately, only a few of Kosinski's characters are on stage long enough to develop into interesting individuals. The rest become props for the protagonist to use and discard...
...Stanley's program has become increasingly well known, hundreds of seventh-graders have been pouring in from a wider and wider area to take his tests and sample what Stanley calls a "smorgasbord of educationally accelerated opportunities." Some, who live near by, are ferried by their parents to special two-hour Saturday tutorial classes at Johns Hopkins. Tutored by other prodigies just a few years older than they, these gifted students now race through advanced algebra and geometry. Others leapfrog over grades, and some will attend a special summer session at Johns Hopkins...
...AMUSEMENT FARE, An Evening of Bernstein is like a wildly assorted selection of leftovers from a good French restaurant. This smorgasbord is better and by far more interesting than what is usually served around Harvard; each dish by itself would be quite delicious. But some bits seem stale, there isn't really enough of any one thing, and the subtle flavors of some concoctions are drowned by the stronger flavors of others...
...drawn to the book expecting new tales of aristocratic bravery in the face of death are bound for disappointment, for Cussler has simply used the old wreck as a pawn in a far-fetched modern spy thriller. But the book tries to make up for the deception with a smorgasbord of romantic espionage, classical sleuthing and high-seas heroism, and the formula seems to have worked. Though so egregiously trite and poorly written that the souls of Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie and Herman Melville must all be cringing at Cussler's perversion of the literary forms they mastered, Raise...
...York Times, which gallantly runs page after page of important foreign policy documents, feels no such compulsion at conventions; even the keynote speech is reduced to excerpts. The Times, says Deputy Managing Editor Seymour Topping, aims to set before its readers-expert and nonexpert-a "high quality smorgasbord"; that way, presumably, the reader on the run can find enough nourishment without having to sample every dish. Jim Hoge, the Chicago Sun-Times editor, drastically cut back his paper's coverage and space on the second day of the Democratic Convention, convinced that readers and viewers have "a sensory understanding...