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...chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote, don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If your can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...mother stares at me with a bottomless fury. "It's not a laughing matter," she says, her voice as dry as cracked wood. I have just attempted, unsuccessfully, to kid her out of her adamancy, but she only repeats what she has been demanding for the past hour: "Put me in my bed!" Yet the nurses have told her over and over that she must sit up part of the day to prevent bedsores and worse...
Then he reads that publishers seem increasingly interested in photogenic authors. Would she make an alluring book-jacket photograph? Would he be viable as the subject of a magazine spread that concentrates on what he wears while chopping wood? Toward the end of 1997, news coverage of the industry was less about writers with modest sales (so-called midlist writers) than about particularly attractive writers whose books had spent months on the Best Sellers' list--beneficiaries of what the critics might call the Hunk and Babe Effect...
...Well, he's about as animated as a lamppost," the art editor says. "But he's still a good-looking guy, and I think we can do something striking on the jacket with him chopping wood." 2000 turns out to be a good year for Al Gore. Physically unattractive writers of literary novels have another terrible year...
Soon the only place you'll be able to find a pair of traditional skis will be at a yard sale. So-called shaped skis--a.k.a. parabolic, side-cut cyber--have revolutionized the sport, making the trip downhill easier and safer. Not since metal and fiber glass replaced wood have skiers gained so much from an improvement in equipment. The industry badly needs the boost. The number of skiers and ski-resort visits has been flat for a decade, while the number of skis sold has fallen 40%. Meanwhile, snowboarding has blossomed...