91. His vehicle for this attempted personality transplant is a book tour promoting his new memoir, which reads like the sanitized confessional of a mellow elder statesman. 92. His life reads like a storybook. 93. How she came to realize her dream reads like a case study for a small cosmetics concern. 94. His account of that company reads like something reconstructed from old newspaper clips. 95. His five-year record as prime minister does not read like a profile in courage. 96. His life story, in which the gaps and omissions far outnumber the known facts, reads like a tale about a family man who was short on luck. 97. His narrative about working just enough to get drunk and maintain a modicum of dignity reads like a Steinbeck novel. 98. His numbers read like some sort of basketball science fiction. 99. His story is so strange, it reads like a fairy tale. 100. I might have appeared irascible as journalists scribbled madly, looking for the sound bite that read like revelation. |