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This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
According to Ekman, Friesen, and O'Sullivan, there is a clear distinction between "felt happy" smiles and "masking" smiles intended to hide some other emotion.
Sullivan, supra, the Court applied these principles to a statutory scheme that is in all relevant respects indistinguishable from §504(a)(16).
-- Matt Sullivan
(Sullivan wants to tax all capital gains at the same rate as income, and the numbers would be skewed even more by that.)