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Good, not great, reviews for the final novel in the trilogy that began with The Last Picture Show and continued with Texasville . Critics say that although this is not on a par with McMurtry's finest work, "every page is as welcome as a letter from home" (Kyle Smith, People ). Others think the extended musing on the depression of 62-year-old oilman Duane Moore focuses so much on his malaise as to become boring, but most agree with Malcolm Jones of Newsweek : "both heartbreaking and hilarious, sometimes on the same page."
Much as the one tangible consequence of Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise" speech, in 1979, was that it taught millions of Americans a new French word (which Carter in his speech in fact never uttered; the word was picked up from pre-speech "spinning" by Carter's political adviser, Patrick Caddell), so too a consequence of the Thompson committee hearings has been to give wide currency to the term soft money , in the sense of "money that can be collected for use in political campaigns but which enjoys an existence outside the rules, the oversight, and the control of the Federal Election Commission."
What are the issues behind the publishing malaise?
56% of the 516 case reports we reviewed described one or more symptoms consistent with a transient, anicteric chemical hepatitis (eg, malaise, fever, anorexia, headache, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhoea, concentration difficulties).
Murderous gangs in East Timor, deadly bombings in Israel and the Caucasus, scary tumors in Cardinal O'Connor's head, fugitive financier Martin Frankel in the Holsenglacis jail, runaway parade floats plowing into the crowd and yet not crushing a single presidential candidate--so much news and so little time, the effect of the summer schedule on News Quiz--which, incidentally, you can play all week without paying New York sales tax or showering or even getting out of your pajamas: Such is our end-of-summer malaise.
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