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...Reading a book by both is like seeing Agassi and Sampras play doubles: it's nimble, apparently effortless, playful work. The adventures of said Bert, who has a wife and easily waked baby, aren't too perilous. In one chapter (a concept the book cleverly introduces to younger readers), he puts on a shirt, falls into a truck and is taken to Scotland. But Bert's doings are witty and sweet and endlessly rereadable...
...elderly Americans will not get enough to eat this holiday season because they lack the mobility to prepare their own meals, according to a study at Cornell University. Others will not be able to afford nutritionally adequate meals. Researchers found that the elderly tend to consume fewer calories than younger people and less of the 18 important nutrients, particularly protein, iron, magnesium, zinc, vitamins B-6 and B-12, and niacin...
...thought of its consequences, which Schlink writes with a playful awareness. He almost winks at the reader through the page with his treatment of Thomas as a naive prisoner of lust. Eventually though, Thomas seeks escape from both of his lives. He begins a sexual relationship with a much younger woman named Helga, furthering complicating his odd situation...
...intelligentsia Martin Amis proclaims in the foreword to The War Against Cliché, and not without a touch of bitterness. Accused by his father, the equally, if not more famous novelist Kingsley Amis, of a “terrible compulsive vividness in his style,” Amis the younger has never been one to pander to the masses. At his best, he is a witty purveyor of critical and cultural insight; at his worst, he is an arrogant misogynist. Like many of his novels, The War Against Cliché is a tad too long and a tad too self...
...letter, 27 former fellows suggest that Radcliffe may be neglecting its commitment to gender issues and runs the risk of “stifling the maverick and reducing younger professionals to assistants or designated heirs...