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The novel, published in 1925, stands shoulder-high to Woolf's next book, To the Lighthouse --which is to say, to one of the dozen greatest novels written after World War I. It's almost entirely interior, set behind the eyes of a handful of upper-crust Londoners, with point of view slipped like a baton from one character to the next.
What saved me from falling into that trap was the sudden recognition that he would never be so presumptuous as to write an article exposing the inadequacies of his peers' researches while at the same time allowing half a dozen comparable lapses of his own to remain unheeded and unweeded in the exposé itself.
Not having seen a Democratic administration in a dozen years, they might well have been worried that the new one elected in 1992 would actually follow through on its rhetoric about human rights and democracy.
His last dozen films have ranged from bombastic dreck ( Bram Stoker's Dracula , The Godfather Part III , The Cotton Club ) to infantile dreck ( Jack , Captain Eo ) to biographical dreck ( Tucker: The Man and His Dream ) to pretentious dreck ( One From the Heart , New York Stories ). He has also been producer for an astonishing volume of bad cinema and television, including NBC's The Odyssey ; the 1992 movie Wind ; and White Dwarf , a sci-fi movie for Fox.
and it is not till we get to the end, where a dozen styles are listed that there is any sense of semantic or associative grouping.