But just as the blunt and brilliant Tempe favors her own home-cooking methods for cleaning cadaver bones, in this scrupulously tended series Reichs relies on old-fashioned elements of romance as her storytelling hook.
DESPITE the spiffy suit, scrupulously tended smile, politician-quality handshake and neatly gelled, ultra-gentrified pseudo-Mohawk hairdo, Kenneth J. Podziba comes across as a regular guy for all seasons -- sports seasons.
Here the roads are smooth and well maintained; you drive past tidy little villages made up of immaculate red-brick houses, with scrupulously tended front gardens.
(The vast majority of the peninsula's chicken farmers work for the major processing companies, which scrupulously tend to their flocks to prevent flu infections).
His pools are tended scrupulously and tested hourly, more to keep the temperature and the chlorine and pH levels comfortable than to detect some poison that might attack him through his pores, eyes, mouth, nose, ears, penis, or anus-although that worry is always there too.
Though they usually maintained cordial relations with emperors, the scholars and teachers of Timbuktu, like most West African Islamic scholars, tended to scrupulously avoid overt involvement in politics.
All I had to do was give up gluten, sugar, salt, alcohol, red meat, tap water, unsaturated fats, potatoes and poisonous processed foods, and switch to scrupulously sourced natural plant food, grown on uncontaminated soil tended by farmers who use ancient Californian methods to produce dream veggies glowing with liver-cleansing antioxidants.
There are nearly 50 players, but they tend to scrupulously avoid their head coach.
Such nonsense aside, Mackrell's biography of Lopokova was a thrilling one, deeply researched and scrupulously avoiding the cliches that tend to appear whenever "Bloomsbury" is lodged in the title.
Modern audiences tend not to warm to Greer Garson's performance in the title role, which seems unusually theatrical for the scrupulously naturalistic Wyler.
A scrupulously fair one would add that achievements such as the North American Free-Trade Agreement and deficit reduction (both partly inherited from his predecessor) might well have been politically impossible had Mr Clinton taken office at the beginning of the recession.Mr Rubin also, like many a gambler with a system, tends to overstate its powers, especially on deficit reduction.
