His show at the John Gibson Gallery is a glancing discourse on time, consisting of various clocks and brief apercus that he wrote beneath them on a recent trip when he whizzed into the gallery.
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Compared with the eccentric, surprising apercus found in such earlier books as " The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, " many of these remarks feel tired, self-important and overly familiar.
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Gale Harold appears as Morrison, an obsessive-compulsive writer who jots down apercus in the superclean confines of a BMW SUV . He rolls up curbside and beckons her for a drive-by courtship.
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Kramer castigated Goldstein for imputing " racist and homophobic apercus " to Croce's article and countered the Stalin gibe by comparing Goldstein's screed to " an old Pravda editorial ."
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That's a lot of apercus, considering that much of what there is to say about Shakespeare had already been said by 1904, when A . C . Bradley had finished taking care of business.
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To emphasize that we were in a time warp, he also quoted some apercus from his old friend Gen . Alexander Haig . ( When was the last time you heard that name ? ) They were not howlers.
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By the time Mitchell caught up with him, Gould's oral history, an epic anthology of overheard conversations, essays and apercus hand-written in school composition books, had been more than 25 years in the making.
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Moreover, writers seem to feel that these minuscule apercus are so important that not only do they compose them themselves, but often have them published twice, once on the flap and once again in the back of the book itself.
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Her apercus embrace taxis, marriage, friendship, other relationships, the differences between men and women, finances, parents, children, doctors, diets, clothes, cosmetics and just about anything that seems to pop into her clever head.
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Marlow shares with us at great length on such topics as political correctness and the blandness of contemporary European culture; he delivers such brow-smiting apercus as " The condition we live in is one of intimacy and distance ."
