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For example, the current trend among stand-up comedians--particularly as reflected in the persistent American television broadcasts from various improvs--is simply to retail common, ordinary, everday events and rely on the audience to laugh appreciatively at the perception of the comedian to point out our foibles.
The leaden account Walsh has produced more than a decade later reflects in microcosm most of the foibles that afflicted his investigation.
The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).
When a person, in the process of seeking your advice, reveals rather personal foibles, should you not be alerted to the probability that such a person is quite apt to be a whacko, weirdo, misfit, or plain loser?
I think Dawn Powell would be delighted to know that her work means something to yet another novelist with such a sharp, funny, and clear-headed perspective on human dreams and human foibles.