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The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.
Otherwise, the operator turns the machine wheel to get the needle in the up position, lowers the presser foot, sews the beginning of the seam, backstitches to lock the seam, grabs the two plies of cloth near where the seam will end, and guides the cloth through the sewing machine.
The story also sits atop the Wall Street Journal 's front-page news index box and is fronted below the fold by the Washington Post , whose top non-local story is the paper's new polling on the New Hampshire primaries showing that both the Democratic and Republican races are "up for grabs."
Other House leadership positions are up for grabs, too, and the candidates for these jobs have joined Livingston and his enemies in the ideology-pragmatism debate.
YUGO is taken, NEWSQIZ is still up for grabs, as is UGLY.