The use of political handlers tends to provide voters with a one-dimensional picture of the candidate, not unlike the handlers at the dog show: although it may look like a superb specimen, can it really hunt?
Added to which they're mysterious, complicated instruments often seen as boring," says Benjamin Alard, the organist at the church of Saint Louis en l'île, which boasts a superb specimen built by Bernard Aubertin.
IN A LONELY PLACE (Feminist Press, paper, $14.95), a superb specimen of noir suspense by Dorothy B. Hughes, published in 1947, observes pulp traditions of the postwar period with its dark themes, clipped pace, sexually charged atmosphere and disturbing plot about a serial killer who is stalking the Los Angeles coast, strangling women out alone at night.
At one point, his white stick-figure counterpart, Captain Charles Taylor Steven Pasqualee), says, "I don't want to offend you, but I just cannot get used to it — the bars, the uniform — being in charge just doesn't look right on Negroes!" But Davenport is a master both of himself and of the system, a superb specimen of African-American manhood adapted to white society.
They are superb specimens, three varieties that change with the market, and there are, in addition to a classic vinegar-pepper mignonette, three flavor enhancers, including a zippy tomato-horseradish granitè.
The other, known as "K-selection", is to have only a few offspring but to nurture them so that they are superb specimens and will thus do well in the competition for resources and mates, and produce more grandchildren for their parents than their less well-nurtured contemporaries.
It is an ethic that has transformed Murray into a superb physical specimen.
Chernow dwells on Washington's manliness, describing him, every few pages or so, as "a superb physical specimen, with a magnificent physique," "an exceptionally muscular and vigorous young man," with an "imposing face and virile form," "powerfully rough-hewn and endowed with matchless strength," not excepting his "wide, flaring hips with muscular thighs".
William Anderson, surgeon and naturalist on Captain James Cook's third voyage, collected the first superb fairywren specimen in 1777 while traveling off the coast of eastern Tasmania, in Bruny Island's Adventure Bay.
I know of no other animals in which superb healthy specimens break their bones simply from running.
Summarised thus, the stories may seem unpromising, even silly, but Cunningham is a superb writer and Specimen Days is full of the same lovely prose and generous spirit that distinguished his previous novels.
