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The dialogue, much of it straight from the book, is full of terse humor (when a cop comes by to interrogate Vaughan about a hit-and-run, Catherine brushes him off: "Vaughan isn't interested in pedestrians").
Using masonry knives and pieces of cardboard instead of brushes, de Kooning smears paint across the canvas as if it were Spackle.
Many reviewers are fascinated by the sociological details of retail shopping--things like the "butt brush factor" (a woman often won't buy something if another customer accidentally brushes her behind while she's shopping) or how the positions of signs and chairs in a store affect a shopper's likelihood of actually purchasing an item.
The Post barely brushes this topic, speculating that the investigators may have concluded the tragedy resulted from a decision by the entire crew.
The LAT also does a front-page review of the Supreme Court's performance, emphasizing the many ways in which its decisions stymied positions near and dear to Bill Clinton, whereas the Post 's treatment focuses not on the political, but the personal, noting that in considering medically assisted suicide, Justices O'Connor and Stevens no doubt drew on their own brushes with cancer, and that for the decision overturning suppression of cyberporn, the justices logged on to the Internet.