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Outside the Austrian sphere of influence, Italy remained solidly conservative.
As a result, columnists often tend to turn to filler--mock outrage over the scandal of the day; rants on solidly uncontroversial topics (the New York Post 's Maggie Gallagher, I noticed, devoted an entire column yesterday to advancing the rather daring notion that adults should not have sex with children); and, in certain cases, paeans to the comforts of their family.
P. 378: for soldily read solidly.
The NYT story stresses the inability of congressional Republicans to soften their image post-Newt Gingrich; the Post notes that Bush's policy positions are still solidly conservative, despite Bauer's and Forbes' assertions to the contrary; and the Journal calls Bush's Tuesday remarks his "Sister Souljah moment"--referring to candidate Clinton's successful 1992 strategy of distancing himself from his party's ideological base.
A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).
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