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Fleming's poker face is perfect for making you giggle at offhand insertions of Watergate minutiae or urban-paranoid compositions cribbed from Alan J. Pakula's film of All the President's Men (1976).
There are also some scattered minihistories of female desire among Taoists and among the Zunis of New Mexico, which are provocative (a 19 th -century Zuni ceremony celebrating the superiority of the vulva required men to don huge wooden penises) but feel as if they were cribbed in a 45-minute visit to the library.
These gardens contain many elements cribbed from nature herself, such as sinuous paths, free-form ponds, curvy clumps of shrubs, and squiggly planting beds.
Nor is it a serious critique (or celebration for that matter) of the tabloids, or a Hollywood gossip column lazily cribbed from the pages of other magazines.
In last week's column, for example, featuring Felicity 's Keri Russell, the vast majority of Russell's musings were cribbed word for word from a May People magazine story and an August InStyle feature.