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," "Metabolife's Lawyer Assures C'box He Won't Sue," and "Round One: ABC News 1, Metabolife 0.") But when the hour arrived, Chatterbox, having spent a pleasant evening 'round the hearth with Pappy and Mammy Chatterbox--who were visiting from California--was preoccupied, along with Mrs. Chatterbox, by the somewhat arduous task of tucking the Chatterkinder snugly into their beds.
After days in the sun, and the arduous exercise of building sand castles and going swimming, it made me less angry at the morons who staff the daily papers.
A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."
As Sutton carefully gathers up the pebbles, she explains how the trail of fabrications helped Bettelheim along his arduous way.
The Phase Two strikes and raids began on October 7. The basing arrangements contemplated for Phase One were substantially secured-after arduous effort-by the end of that month.