Word: impressionism
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I will be the fifth woman in my family to receive a Harvard degree: my grandmother received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard, my mother graduated from Radcliffe in 1968 and two aunts graduated from Harvard subsequently. Having quickly started considering this perennial family question after a friend's father...
He asks where I'm from, and, incredibly, in no time at all we're knee-deep in small talk. Soon it becomes apparent that he thinks I'm a tourist, but it's not worth interrupting the flow of our conversation to correct his impression.
Somehow we drift into a captivating if zany discourse on the obscure matter of New York State electoral politics. It's a subject he's particularly interested in, for some reason, and I'm more than happy to share what little information I've gleaned about the key state-wide...
Seinfeld's high ratings give the impression that everyone in America is watching the show and that therefore its departure will create a huge void in popular culture. Actually, by historical standards, Seinfeld does not have a very big audience. As we all know, the ratings for the networks have...
As he did with Clockers, his 1992 novel about the drug trade in a worn-down wasteland of urban New Jersey, Richard Price creates in his new novel, Freedomland (Broadway Books; 546 pages; $25), a thriller in which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most...