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To: urtax$@work
The correct answer is "H," as David Remnick's stupendous biography...

Stupendous? This is a professional review that describes the book as stupendous?

23 posted on 04/06/2010 8:28:32 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch

“Stupendous? This is a professional review that describes the book as stupendous?”

They were confused with ‘stuporous’.


26 posted on 04/06/2010 8:45:45 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (What is a slave, but someone robbed of his labor to sustain the idle?)
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“This is a professional review that describes the book as stupendous?”

Yes, the reviewer was signaling that he’d thoroughly assessed the book using rigorous criteria and in no way let his emotions cloud his judgment.


28 posted on 04/06/2010 9:03:22 AM PDT by DrC
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