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The Collins is a British dictionary, but, despite the fact that some compositors clambered over one another to acquire the computerized lists of such words showing the breaks, others paid the information little heed—particularly Collins Publishers— and the marks were omitted entirely from the Second Edition of their dictionary.
Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)
Several black politicians backed Daley despite assertions by his opponent, Rep.
Few people born after 1950 had heard of it, despite its remaining in print until Folkways Records dissolved when its owner, Moe Asch, died in the mid-1980s.
But others note that despite Crittenden's claim that "feminism has failed women," it "does not seem to have failed the author, a married mother of two who is building her own career based in the subject" (Elizabeth Glieck, the New York Times Book Review ). Conservatives and liberals alike agree that Crittenden oversimplifies both the nature of the contemporary workplace and women's choices.
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