As is all but obligatory in books about contemporary public affairs, both Adler and Abramson portray a system in crisis.
I never rewound the lesbian kiss moment in American Pie 2, and my reading level did eventually mature to the obligatory "cool books" stage of Kerouac, Salinger, Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and the rest.
Everyone's obligatory coffee-table book last Christmas, but remember, it was a radio series, and what made it so memorable were the conversations between British Museum director Neil MacGregor and the experts handling the various artifacts, which have to be heard rather than read.
But despite the obligatory unanswered questions, Book One stands on its own.
Booted back to Hope, he encounters this book's obligatory female sidekick.
Mr Rauch's book should become obligatory reading for all.*In 1995-96.
It is into his consciousness that we are first allowed a glimpse, on the second page of the book, after the obligatory topographical mise-en-scène has revealed these figures in their landscape.
The book begins with the obligatory description of his Austrian childhood and says that he and his brother were forced to do situps to earn their breakfast.
In this very British So-what, there is only the occasional flash of real wit, as in the book's list of obligatory events in American coming-of-age films.
The book starts with the obligatory canter through human phylogeny, in which most presumed sexual differences observed among fossils are attributed to "intra-sexual selection".
