Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well as literary criticism. The mechanisms of imagination are the focus of the book. Scarry classifies the actions of literature within the imagination of the individual reader, identifying five main devices: radiant ignition, rarity, dyadic addition and subtraction, stretching and floral supposition. Scarry adds to this already esoteric and complex classification three chapters on aspects of repicturing, addressing circles, skating and "quickening with flowers...
...that HASCS has pinpointed the source of the system weakness, it can work on a more permanent solution. After a time-consuming analysis, HASCS calculated what equipment is needed and placed the order. The equipment is complex, and will take up to several weeks to arrive...
...film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while trying to foil a robbery, he reluctantly turns to Rusty for singing lessons as therapy. Needless to say, the one-time enemies learn there's more to each other than meets...
...Reading Crisis, Chall and Jacobs wrote that students whose families do not challenge them to read more complex books depend increasingly on their teachers through elementary school...
Increasing the number of tenured women has proved to be a long and complicated process. Convincing the university to change the specific policies that negatively affect women can often be equally problematic--but at least these issues have concrete, if complex, solutions...