Word: tome
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...qualifies as a hack writer, especially after the laughable global-warming-is-a-myth diatribe “State of Fear.” He is certainly popular and prolific enough to be dismissed as a trashy writer...and he did live in Weld (see “Tome Raider?...
...perhaps the world's most famous living celebrity-intellectual, to retrace the steps of De Tocqueville's 1831-32 ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single most annoying flaw in Lévy's tome: overly long sentences. Still with us? If so, then you will emerge from the author's thicket of anecdotes, aperçus and subordinate clauses to find your mind stimulated and faith in America renewed. Oh, another problem: Lévy is French. That means a preoccupation with theory, and he duly invokes...
...February 1946, Harvard acquired the tome from a New Orleans rare books dealer for $42.50. “Clem G. Hearsey, New Orleans,” is stamped on the book’s first page. In 1992, DNA tests on the binding’s skin proved inconclusive—the genetic evidence presumably was corrupted by the tanning process. Ferris says “he has never seen a book like this on the market,” and that, without its binding, the book probably values between $500 and $1000, while the skin makes it more valuable...
...Simon H. Rich ’06-’07, will be starting of a tome of his own after nabbing a two-book deal from the publisher Random House...
...camera opens on a simple school notebook: Aes’s fabled tome of rhymes, which opens to reveal strings of rearranging words that, in a fashion reminiscent of Beck’s ASCII-chic “Black Tambourine” video, briefly form an outline of his face. Aesop easily laps Mr. Hansen’s one-trick pony, as he quickly takes corporeal form...