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Reviewers note that the essays, like the book, are long (97 pages about a cruise-ship voyage, 54 on the Illinois State Fair) and playful ("He trounces words; he pivots on commas; he drops in and out of styles like a vaudevillian who lets the audience watch him change costumes right there on stage," says the Los Angeles Times ' Susan Salter Reynolds).
Now Gore trounces Bush in a debate, substantially widening his lead, and making it all but certain that Gore will win.
By any rational calculus, Inglis trounces Hollings in tonight's debate.