Word: hallmark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intelligent reader doubts that Frost had a dark side. Dread--of the "beast" waiting in night and cold, of Frost's forsaken conviction that "there is no oversight of human affairs"--gnaws at the edges of his work. Frost was not writing Hallmark cards...
Winterson's less poetic efforts suffer from lapses into sentimental philosophizing, as if she momentarily invokes the Hallmark Muse. I'm all for stories that convey basic truths about humanity, but I'm against the author obtrusively pointing them out for me. I'm not even sure I know what a platitude like "The future is still intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable" from the story "Orion" means. Are our futures really that predetermined? And of course "the past is irredeemable"--It's already happened; it's gone. It's tautologies like that that make me lash...
...spent a lot of dollars in this mall," Barbara Morgan says while she and friend Marilyn Laslo pick over the scraps in the Hallmark shop. "We can remember when they were filming the movies in here...
...classic chest-crushing pain that is the hallmark of a heart attack turns out to be mainly a male symptom. Women's heart attacks, by contrast, tend to show up as shortness of breath, fatigue and jaw pain, stretched out over hours rather than minutes...
That on-again, off-again quality would be the hallmark of this team...