If they were no better looking than run-of-the-mine conventioneers, they were definitely better behaved.
What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the .
The procession of stories that make the front page or 60 seconds on network television constitutes the daily brush between the run-of-the-mine reporter and the run-of-the-mine .