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| | The Elegant Variation: CHINESE WRITER ARRESTED |
 | | It typically seeks fancy new words for familiar things, and it scrambles for synonyms in order to avoid at all costs repeating a word, even though repetition might be the natural, normal thing to do: The audience had a certain bovine placidity, instead of The audience was as placid as cows. |
 | | Elegant variation is often the rock, and a stereotype, a cliché, or a tired metaphor the hard place between which inexperienced or foolish writers come to grief. |
 | | Liu was sentenced to remain at the center for two years of "custody and education," a sentence handed out for minor crimes without a trial or formal charges, the groups said. |
| marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2004/05/chinese_writer_.html (933 words) |
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