Word: although
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...biography could almost paint Mailer in a tragic light, but ultimately he seems too unconcerned, too disconnected from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like he could never enjoy any of it, like it was just one escapade after another, and that he never really found whatever he was looking...
...serrated plane. During the age of exploration, cartographers scrambled again to make the most navigable two-dimensional renderings of the globe, leading to the invention of the Mercator projection in the 16th century. Taking pictures of the earth from a zillion miles away has certainly helped things along today, although "seeing" where you are on any map at all starts to feel old-fashioned post...
...Unshapely splotches of white interrupt the swathes of life and limb like technographic stretchmarks, dead spaces bound up by the body's jagged fringe. These white areas are bothersome in the way unpainted canvas is bothersome. And although it is aesthetically flummoxing that two generally pleasing things to look at--portraits and maps--come out of the blender looking not quite as nice as either, beauty here is more a question of timeliness. Messing around with technology to produce art is primarily a good way to let people know what can be done, and to cultivate an appropriate degree...
...Although the Crimson won both of its games, UNH (22-7-0, 15-5-0) managed to move past Harvard in the ECAC standings. The Wildcats are in third place in the conference, one point ahead of the Crimson and three points behind first-place Brown...
...wife, a homemaker named Mumtaz with a second career as an undercover journalist. We learn early on that our primary narrator (the first person switches frequently among the main characters) has been involved in a botched robbery, and is now on trial for murder. The evidence sounds damning, although we are not told the specifics of the case until much later in the book. The story is told by him and by others, always in a slightly mournful, regretful voice, as if the whole cast were paying penance for a communal...