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Rob Spillman

Media Circus: Blurbed vision

For the intelligent but busy, nonspecialist but curious reviewer, wading through book-catalog copy is an accessible, important, prize-winning pastime in the tradition of cleaning out the Augean stables.

Thursday, Jan 30, 1997 8:00 PM UTC
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