| 11. | Along the way, Baker serves up dozens of interesting ( or, depending on your point of view, irrelevant ) facts and apercus.
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| 12. | In the appointed hour, the psychotherapist listens and says little, except toward the end, usually, where some synthesis issues forth in apercu.
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| 13. | The distinctive voice, which speaks to the reader in the second person, is full of hilarious, poignant asides, digressions, opinions and apercus.
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| 14. | Her apercu explains why a list of New York's most talked-about hosts of the 20th century does not contain the name Brooke Astor.
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| 15. | The most compelling character is a rebellious, camera-wielding 8-year-old boy ( Jonathan Chang ), given to astonishing philosophical apercus.
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| 16. | Trial transcripts can be ordered through an 800 number at $ 9 per day; Cowlings'900 number for recorded apercus charges nearly $ 3 per minute.
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| 17. | She can take a sudden, random interjection ( " God, I miss fringe ! " ) and turn it into a seriously comic apercu.
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| 18. | His conversation, largely unstoppable, is a rich compote of tough-guy Yiddish, 50s bop and well-honed apercu dredged up from a lifetime of reading.
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| 19. | Where did you go to school ? " ) and casual apercus ( " Phill Gramm and Yuri Andropov-- separated at birth ? " ).
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| 20. | :. . . he was so seminal a thinker that his insights and apercus tend to " sprout in the brains " with a fertility that is positively dangerous.
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