Word: remarkably
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...lose the audience's interest. As the Statue puts it, "This is extremely abstract and metaphysical, Juan. If you would stick to the concrete and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow." While this remark shows that he has completely missed Juan's point, it does highlight the challenges of staging this scene...
Such formal prose does not entirely squelch the sort of tomfooleries that Pynchon devotees so eagerly search out. When, for example, Mason takes offense at a remark by his partner, Dixon asks, "Tell me, what'd I say?" The anachronistic allusion to Ray Charles' future rock hit will tickle the cognoscenti. The book teems with other familiar Pynchonesque diversions: a talking dog that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number...
...most recent demonstration of racial insensitivity in the sports world occurred in the field of golf. Since the PGA tour remains such a lily-white enclave, perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone associated with the game made an asinine remark about the sport's new phenom, Tiger Woods. Last week, Woods won the PGA's Masters Tournament, setting records for being the youngest Masters winner in history, as well as winning with an 18-under-par score and a 12-stroke lead. However, Woods' unofficial record is being labeled the first black golfer...
Dingman and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 echoed Epps' remark that there are no formal plans for new housing construction...
...late December 485 Denver-area physicians scrapped their HMO provider, Antero Healthplans, rather than accept a 15% cut. Their 3,000 patients had to scramble over the holidays to find somebody to treat them. Most wound up back with their old doctors, but after enough anxiety to underscore a remark by Peter Van Etten, president of Stanford Health Services: "In this insanity of economics in health care, the patient always loses...