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That is not to say that the book's theme is casual, for Honey comes to grips with social aspects of language that are seldom treated, even in a clinical manner, by linguists.
Critics of U.S. intervention have never come to grips with this.
Bugger grips is his intriguing term for what others might call muttonchops or burnsides; he believes that fulsome means exuberant.
Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.
That Speakermania grips the papers this way shows they're a bit out of touch with what seems to be the point of last week's election results: the public doesn't care about what Washington cares about.