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...question: Why wait around for authors to turn themselves into celebrities when it's possible to sign up people who are already famous or semi-so? Whether such folk could actually write novels mattered hardly at all. Turning unmitigated dross into dross that will sell is how editors and, sotto voce, ghostwriters earn their keep...
...cord..." But at other moments Davis lapses into tiresome literary tics, for example, the Amazing, All-In-One Speech Formula: within a few pages, we see people pleading, muttering, snapping, intervening, erupting, venturing, uttering in horror (a personal favorite), inserting furrowing brow in non-comprehension, half-gasping, rebutting, speaking sotto voce (a diving officer, no less), barking, snorting, and chirping...
...Time Warner stock. "To get dividends on his stock? I just don't see it. Sure, he's a poor billionaire--but he has run his own show for 20 years. It's got to be something else. I'd love to know what they're offering him, sotto voce...
...world, Harding's plight has not been greeted with universal sympathy -- and she has largely herself to blame. For years, she has played a Jekyll-and-Hyde game that has earned her more detractors than fans. People who publicly say they believe Harding is now telling the truth add, sotto voce, that she has long had a reputation for lying...
...done sotto voce, but somehow word gets passed. The Air Force is the most hospitable armed branch; the Marines and Army are the pits. Entertainment and medical jobs are the safest; artillery and infantry units the roughest. If possible, head for bases around San Francisco or Washington; steer clear of South Korea and Hawaii. Join groups like Alcoholics Anonymous; for those in the Navy, especially, they are safe enclaves. Buy Bob Damron's Address Book; it lists gay bars near military installations both at home and abroad. But be careful: such clubs are off limits and are often scouted...