Her memoirs, handwritten in a scrawl that only one friend could decipher and transcribe, are heavily packed with italics and exclamation marks and parentheses.

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The characters are shrill, cartoon-like figures, and the bubblegum text is so distended with italics, capital letters, lists, diagrams, poor jokes and faux parables that you end up wanting to stick it to the underside of your chair and leave it there.

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This leaves Google with the upper hand (italics mine).

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Yet, for all those criticisms, this is an interesting read, especially in its historical sections, though it could have done with less sociological jargon and fewer annoying italics.

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Below, in italics, are portions of that excerpt, with what I believe are relevant points from modern-day media.

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How about italics: there has to be strong currency policy in combination with tax cuts.

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"It would not be stretching a point to suggest that the Global Village...was essentially born with the worldwide apprehension of, and fascination with, the events in Java that began in the summer of 1883, " he writes (italics in original).

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