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Tufte has produced three books that make it possible to see the dynamics of linguistic grammar in a brilliantly synesthetic way--books that succeed in this task by not having grammar as their ostensible subject at all.
I did not think a book could be any worse than High Crimes . Then I encountered Jerome Levin's--whoops, I mean, Dr. Jerome Levin's-- The Clinton Syndrome . Psychotherapist Levin's ostensible purpose is to use Clinton's problems to bring attention to sex addiction.
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.
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.
The ostensible reason for this racial "profiling" is that New Jersey highways are a conduit for drugs and that the troopers think blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be culprits.