Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worry, I'm not really giving anything away), a gay Thomas Ripley might become some terrible variation on the mythic self-hating homosexual serial killed--a queasy Andrew Cunanan done up in old-fashioned clothes. But the change actually produces all kinds of new tensions that deepen the emotional weight of the story. Tom's confused sexuality is just another expression of his place outside the privileged world of golden boys...
...reader scarcely notices, as Raban mixes the tributaries of his own experience, accounts of early explorers and the myths of coastal natives. His masterly book becomes a surging current that spins off eddies in which the strands of the narrative converge. At first dazzling and droll, these whirlpools deepen and darken until, in a heartbreaking conclusion, Raban finds himself captured by the tidal forces he has so brilliantly described...
...idea behind all of these efforts is to increase and improve and deepen the international capability in the school," Clark says...
University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 described yesterday's event as an opportunity to look at how Harvard could deepen the relationships it has with its alumni and friends...
...those concessions tend to deepen Arafat?s political problem among Palestinians. "Ordinary Palestinians see this as further evidence that no matter how much it protests Israeli demands, in the end the Palestinian Authority always goes along with what Israel wants," says Hamad. The message to Palestinians is that the sovereignty of the state Arafat would proclaim will be limited. "At this rate," says Hamad, "New Jersey will be more independent than Arafat?s Palestine...