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"Today's Papers" thought this a bit too parochial for inclusion, but the Times ' Maureen Dowd thinks otherwise: she devotes today's column to an anti-Fallows jeremiad, which ends up saying much more about her than him.
Gere is Ike Graham, a New York-based USA Today columnist, who hears about Maggie in a bar and, without even a call to confirm his facts ( check ), devotes his next piece to an un-PC screed on the inconstancy of all women ( check ) with this "runaway bride" as Exhibit A. The column makes him instantly ( check ) unpopular with all those Manhattan USA Today readers ( check ) who recognize him on the street ( check ), not to mention the hordes of small-town USA Today readers who wait for the paper's delivery truck as if it were the Good Humor man ( check ). After the subject of the column responds with a letter composed on a manual typewriter ( check ) disputing its facts, his editor and ex-wife ( check ) (Rita Wilson) promptly ( check ) fires him ( check ).
Frommer's devotes an average of 10 times more copy to hotel décor than to the design of Chicago's great buildings.
(The Braves' Web site devotes almost as much space to the team's community service projects--"Straight A" Program, the Atlanta Braves Foundation, Opportunity Through Baseball, Neighborhood Revitalization Program, Weekend of Caring, etc.--as it does to triumphs on the diamond.)
(The Oxford English Dictionary devotes twenty-one pages to set ). Another strategy often used to assure comprehension is to use a one-letter word and then to follow it with the meaning intended.
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