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Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.
There are over a half-dozen museums concentrated around El Prado (the Promenade), including the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Man, the Natural History Museum, the Aerospace Historical Center, the Automotive Museum, and the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center.
Rebecca West should get a half-dozen listings but will be lucky to get one ( Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ). Ditto A.J.
The spectacular opening of Enduring Love (1997), in which a half-dozen men struggle--and fail--to keep a hot-air balloon from taking off with a small boy in it, is Exhibit A for his skill.
Likewise, a half-dozen recent studies prove beyond a reasonable doubt what every veteran policeman knows: Most prisoners are not petty, nonviolent thieves or mere first-time, low-level drug offenders.