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...literary bestiary, Flaubert's Parrot is actually a centaur--a splendid hybrid with the scholarly countenance of literary criticism and the powerful headquarters of a good novel. Such crossbreeding of genres is not mythical or even uncommon in 20th century literature--take Nabokov's career, for example, which includes a novel in the guise of an annotated poem. Pale Fire, and a literary biography that's also a comic masterpiece. Nikolai Gogol. What makes Julian Barnes's achievement so remarkable, however, is the sheer lack of artifice and pyrotechnics involved...
...Mary Allen Wilkes, chief of the economic crime and fraud division of the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, added that her division has not enforced that law in at least years, because the schemes, which are not uncommon, usually "collapse of their own weight...
...Agassiz Theater of Radcliffe Yard, they had sought to reproduce the atmosphere and intimately of a Greewich Village Jazz club. Although the illusion is and the not hold the spell for 90 minutes, both the effect and the effort are superior The result is a father uncommon evening of Harvard theatre...
These changes apply even to the nonheroic aspects of daily life. If common sense invariably outweighs uncommon hope, some consequences are deplorably certain...
...political ideology. An outsider on the Reagan team in 1980, he overcame White House infighting, criticism from the far right, which considered him too moderate, and suspicion of involvement in the Debategate scandal to emerge as the President's most valuable player. He owes his success largely to an uncommon skill at forging coalitions across ideological lines. His finesse in dealing with politicians is matched by his rapport with much of the Washington press corps. In an Administration wary of journalists, Baker has cultivated reporters and quietly rallied public opinion behind the President's policies...