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Clearly, Amsterdam owes its Booker to committee embarrassment over not tapping (or even shortlisting) Enduring Love . It's rather like the Nobel committee's honoring Hemingway for his vapid The Old Man and the Sea . This leads me to realize that "minor" is most often used as a synonym for "bad" or "short."
One reporter tried to get into the club by tapping a connection with a friend who is a member, but he was refused admission on the reasonable grounds that he wasn't wearing a necktie.
The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.
Just recently, the International Herald Tribune carried an alarming piece in which Henry Tang, a prominent local industrialist and member of Tung's Cabinet, suggested tapping Hong Kong's considerable foreign exchange (some $69 billion in reserves, plus another $22 billion in a special fund from land sales) to develop southern China.
It was hard not to see them as tapping in to a deep-seated nationwide gloom.