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The surgeon with Tourette's, the blind man who regained his sight to his dismay, the subjects variously marooned in the hippie subculture of 1969 or in a Tuscan village of the 1930s, the remarkably gifted autists--all are admirable, all are moving, all are acutely recognizable in human terms.
To the dismay of still others, Clark neither confirms nor denies the rumor that she and fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden slept together.
There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).
The WP says that although Lewinsky didn't provide any new information (to the "dismay" of the prosecutors, says USAT ), she also didn't retreat in any way from her past testimony.
"A book of heart, fire and genius," says the New York Times Book Review . More controversial is Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain , a surprise best seller about a Civil War deserter, which, to the dismay of many critics, beat out DeLillo's Underworld for the National Book Award.
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