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But it is not his ostensible subject, so he relegates much of what he has to say about plants--among other things--to frequent, lengthy, and digressive notes.
Forman and his colleagues present the Andy Kaufman mystery as if they thought it was utterly impenetrable" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or as Janet Maslin writes in the New York Times , "what is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?"
The bad hyphenations, apparently performed by a (feeble-minded, misprogrammed) computer and not reviewed by a (knowledgeable) proofreader, are inexcusable in a book of this kind: “buc-ket” (at - ful ); prop-osed (at irony ); “sing-ular” ( at kind of ); “trad-itionally” (at or); “ostentati-ous” (at ostensible ), etc.
Yes, the ostensible reason for the mission--aging research--is dubious.
In fact, you can't teach them at all; as an environment for educational and moral growth, American public secondary education will continue to be a miserable failure so long as the values of the institution are so at odds with its ostensible mission.