Word: age
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...biggest problem The Powerbook has is that Winterson thinks she can successfully shift time and place with a simple chapter heading. As a result, the book becomes entirely confusing; it is impossible to tell when the protagonist has changed age or gender, for often the protagonist will remain the same but the time, place and lover will be different. If Winterson's intent is to involve the reader in an interactive hunt to chase down the three or four occasionally similar story-lines, then she succeeds...
Ellison's work as an anthropologist focuses on the evolution of the human reproductive system in response to environmental challenges like workload and disease, as well as the effects of factors like age. His fieldwork began 15 years ago with the pygmies of central South America and now includes work from Poland, Paraguay and Argentina...
...whatever happened to good ol' American rock? At the Drive In, Grandaddy and Queens of the Stone Age all had solid releases, but they hardly got any airplay. Meanwhile, the less compelling sounds of Creed, Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach hogged the headlines and sales racks. (Oh, and Bon Jovi returned. Apparently that mattered to some people...
Buckingham's big video project this semester will most likely involve editing and expanding her longest piece, a 12-minute sequence that intersperses scenes of her mother, more clips of her grandmother and shots of Buckingham with her best friend at age 13, "more drunk than I've ever been in my whole life," as she says. Editing plans include making her grandmother seem "less of a monster" and more conversation about "eating disorders and feminine identity...
...hippie free love that was just beginning to flourish on both sides of Atlantic forty-odd years ago. Born to a loveless woman who leaves both sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel, a brilliant molecular biologist, gradually withdraws from human contact. Unable to experience emotion, he finds solace instead in his work, which culminates in no less than...