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"Jokes and derisive comments assume New Jersey is unhip, bourgeois, undistinguished, the beginning of fly-over country".
Council leaders have been irritated, for example, by Mr. Bloomberg's recent comments assuming support for his push to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.
Of course the "entire arc" part of Kluger's comments assumes that untimely death doesn't enter the picture, and that acrimony, geography or mundane laziness doesn't pull brothers and sisters apart, to a point where they're no longer primary witnesses to one another's lives, no longer fellow passengers, just onetime housemates with common heritages.
But in the distorted teenaged mind--especially in high school, especially in a tiny town with no escape from what's bothering you--every event, every comment, assumes enormous meaning.
(Quite a few people in the comments last week assumed that it was he who young Pierre shot dead during the break-in, but, having rewatched the episode, it is clear that Milan was merely the one who organised it).
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Her comments were assumed to reference her engagement to Hemsworth by the media.
"I guess," I said, although I resented the comment, the assumed familiarity.
Like most of the people who were often entertained by the Clutters, Mrs. Kidwell accepted the absence of the hostess without comment, and assumed, as was the custom, that she was either "indisposed" or "away in Wichita".
