Acerca do livro: "It takes a Village" by Hillary Clinton (1996)

"We have to imagine Hillary, in the Old Executive Office Building with her staff of fifteen women [...] marshalling her manuscript. Their objective is to reduce it to a condition of pan-inoffensiveness. This is a big job, because being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. Chapter by chapter, "Village" goes over to Bill's people, to see if they have a problem [...], and so this go on, until you are confronted with printed sentences which read:

"Brisk walking, hiking and bicycling are all good exercice and are great ways to spend time together"


from 'The war against cliche'" by Martin Amis

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