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Techniques and conventions that will come to seem eternal and inevitable will actually be invented in the coming months.
Before Phil died, she ran two households and birthed four kids, rubbed political shoulders with everyone from FDR to JFK, contributed to Democratic campaigns, worked the back rooms at a slew of national political conventions between 1948 and 1960, and sat in on negotiations as Phil purchased the Washington Times Herald , television stations, and Newsweek .
He couldn't keep a band together, and he was being outpaced by younger players, such as pianist Cecil Taylor and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who wanted to liberate jazz from harmonic conventions.
Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.
The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)