Word: walls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Booker Prize in 2002, and now he's produced a follow-up in the form of Beatrice and Virgil. This kind of metafictional loop has become a convention as well-worn as those it was meant to explode. Somebody needs to come up with a fifth wall to break. (See the all TIME 100 novels...
...We’ve got our backs against the wall,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “And we’ve got to fight...
Sorry Jason Bourne, you’ve got to lose the second job on Wall Street. On Feb. 25, 2010, the House of Representatives adopted an amendment, to the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act, that restricts the ability of Central Intelligence Agency officers to hold a second job in the private sector. The amendment, which was sponsored by Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), came as a reaction to a story published on Feb. 1 by Politico...
...Andrew Berry peruses the eclectic collection of artifacts that ornament his home, his eyes come to rest on a display of ceramic vegetation hanging on his kitchen wall. “Now this is bizarre,” he says. The observation can be applied to any number of the rare finds found throughout his home, a collection animated by an exotic, if unusual, aesthetic that uniquely reflects Berry and his family’s passions...
...shelf-lined wall near the kitchen hang numerous plant-like ceramic pieces, along with a similar collection of fantastic ceramic intestinal worms. Though they could easily pass for just another set of artsy decorations, Berry explains that the pieces represent the evolutionary phenomenon of adaptive radiation. “Think of the Galápagos finches, where you have one ancestor arriving on an empty island and then you have multiple different species spawned off from the ancestor,” Berry explains. “You take one original thing, and then you have variations...