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Too many footnotes.
There were many footnotes.
Generally, the presence of many footnotes means red flags, he said.
There were many footnotes that themselves were divided by parenthetical interruptions.
The chapters tend to include many footnotes, some of which are quite lengthy.
But then he realized that the manual would have so many footnotes and caveats that it would be unreadable.
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Mr. Crichton included many footnoted references to a selection of actual data — rates of sea-level rise, frequencies of hurricanes — as well as bibliographies and direct comments to the reader ("the people of 2100 will be much richer than we are," for example).
This history is complex enough for the book to warrant many long footnotes, enough to indicate organizational difficulties.
The ringleader was Ewen Montagu, the son of a wealthy Jewish banker and the brother of Ivor Montagu, a pioneer of table tennis and also, in one of the many strange footnotes to the Mincemeat case, a Soviet spy.
Deford stops along the way to offer worthwhile encomiums to a handful of notable figures, including the pioneering scribe Grantland Rice — sportswriters being, as Deford points out in one of many wry footnotes, the only journalists ever called scribes anymore — and Andre Laguerre, the influential managing editor of Sports Illustrated, who figured prominently in Deford's own career.
That's why the movie, by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, could use some footnotes; many of the events to which it refers are likely unfamiliar to many American viewers (and, I confess, were largely unfamiliar to me before I did some research on the period a decade ago).
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