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...which was the first Soviet publication to run the full story of Mathias Rust's Red Square landing. Readers sometimes buy the paper, which is primarily intended for foreigners, for ten to 20 times the official cost of 10 kopecks (16 cents). Ogonyok, which two years ago was largely unread, now sells out all 1.5 million issues every week. Under the editorship of Vitaly Korotich, the magazine has published a 1939 testament from an exiled Bolshevik denouncing Stalin as "the real enemy of the nation, and the organizer of famine and fake trials." It also sent a young reporter...
...saying it wasn't kicking around in his briefcase [unread]; I'm also saying it was never discussed with him," Russell added...
...does the reader fit into this complex structure of interwoven times and multiple voices? "Terra Nostra," for example, has often been considered unreadable by critics. Yet Fuentes emphasizes that in spite of its difficulty, it is a novel which does not go unread. "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "Where the Air is Clear" were both considered extremely difficult and complicated when they first appeared. Fuentes tells of one critic who suggested that "The Death of Artemio Cruz" served no better purpose than to be flushed down the drain. "Today," Fuentes says, "these novels are read by 15 year-olds...
...least I bought everything the Coop had to offer. By the end of my college career, I figure I will have spent more than $2000 on coursebooks, and one thing I will have to show my children for my college education will be the magnificent library built on unread textbooks...
...chances may be reduced by a deceptive, tempting answer that E.T.S. calls a "distractor." A typical distractor in the stickier part of a math section was set up by this question: A literary agency's editors read 4 out of every 20 scripts submitted. What is the ratio of unread to read scripts? The nice, easy-looking distractor, 5:1, is sitting right there for Joe to get burned on, and usually he does. The correct answer, of course, is 4:1. Owen passes on the Review prescription: in a hard portion, beware the easy answer. In an easy portion...