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Substance simply evaporates in lightness and brevity.
Dates are not always right. Mandarin learning alternates with the journalistic requirements of the elementary. These alternate with bromides out of the school of Umberto Eco which are not much more than polysyllabic variations on the musings of 'Q' and Sainsbury, exchanging a smoking jacket for the CD-Rom. Sunday Telegraph Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole.