Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...course itself, a long, narrow dirt road with brief spans of open ground, effectively locked runners into a fixed order from the very outset and made passing difficult. The more experienced runners were quick to make an advantage of the route's constraints and grabbed the front spots from the beginning, blocking out their competition for the remainder of the race...
This is one work which truly breaks new ground, one of those rare texts that will set the standard for teaching the Victorian novel for years to come. It's doubtful any cynical professor will ever again be able to dismiss Jane Austen for writing "only" little domestic novels, or diminish Mary Shelley by comparing her unfavorably to her illustrious husband. Gilbert and Gubar have quite simply put women writers in their places, at the highest rung of the literary ladder...
...affably acerbic Klein is also a veteran of Chicago's much esteemed comedy training ground, Second City, where he worked with the likes of Fred Willard and David Steinberg. "David was mean. Inconsiderate. A pest and a twirp." (Klein seems to be reveling in the sheer delight of his venom, more than really meaning what he says...
...leaves it to the Gallups or Harrises to record who is ahead; he minutely tests his candidate's trouble spots, his opponent's weaknesses, so that daily adjustments can be made. If Reagan seems weak with women, have him promise a woman judge; if Carter gains no ground by denouncing Reagan's tax cut, have Carter promise one himself. Thus did parody news operate day by day and become news of its own. Having long wearied of reporting a candidate's "set speech," many journalists wrote insider stories of how strategists were positioning their candidates...
FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty