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One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.
The inner workings of King's organization have yet to be fully revealed.
The Post waits until the third paragraph of its story to mention that nitric oxide is central to the process of getting an erection and as such is a key element in the workings of Viagra.
"Crichton isn't nearly as interested in people and their inner workings as he is in things and their inner workings," but that doesn't stop the book from being fun to read: "It's the geeky stuff, in fact, that makes Crichton's books so hugely entertaining" (Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times Book Review ). A few critics can't work up any excitement, labeling it just another "dull time-travel tale" (James Poniewozik, Time ) that is bound for the movies.
In the second half of the book, Mills employs the strategies of feminist stylistics to expose the workings of gender at three levels of language--the word, the phrase or sentence, and larger-scale discourse.