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Approximately 8,000 entries are alphabetically arranged. Standard entries, which range in length from several lines to a column, treat such diverse topics as Falun Gong, Inspector Morse, Jaws of Life, My Fair Lady, Never a dull moment, Pooper scooper, and URL. In addition, the volume features a variety of theme entries, including Advertising slogans of the 20th century, First lines of novels, and Rock group names, which often extend to multiple pages. Accompanying many entries are illustrative quotations, most often garnered from British newspapers and periodicals. The work's British origins are evident in other ways as well. For instance, the entry for What's My Line? contains no mention of the U.S. version of the game show. Inevitably, one questions some of the editor's choices. Garfield and Starsky and Hutch are here, but where are The Far Side and Hill Street Blues?
Though at first glance this work would appear to be a revision of Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth Century Phrase and Fable (Houghton, 1992), its scope is much broader, and about three-fourths of its entries were not in the earlier dictionary. There is some duplication between this volume and the sixteenth edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; however, the overlap is not significant enough to be of concern.
In spite of its British slant and its somewhat erratic selectivity, this entertaining compendium serves as a valuable record of twentieth-century words, expressions, and cultural allusions. It will be a useful addition to high-school, public, and academic libraries. REVWR
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