Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just no one like him here, though Ruben Blades, the singer who is turning into a delicately ironic actor, might have fulfilled the role if his gangster character had been more fully developed. Unfortunately, like everyone else in this huge, wasted effort, he is merely glimpsed wandering in a labyrinth that never draws us into its enigmas and finally stupefies both curiosity and involvement...
Across the street is the huge, two-level Wordsworth, whose arrival a few years back forever shifted the dynamics of bookselling in Harvard Square. Wordsworth prides itself on its knowledgable staff and its large selection, but its labyrinth-like layout makes it difficult for browsers and positively horrifying for claustraphobics. But if you're looking for a specific book, Wordsworth is probably your best...
...maintain neat parade grounds, teak officers' quarters, even the occasional flower bed of marigolds and roses. Bugles sound morning reveille, and new recruits march to target practice under a gatepost that carries a black-lettered sign, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. Even in Komura, a muddy labyrinth of trenches and bunkers 100 miles south, where some 500 Karen soldiers have been trapped in battle for months with the Burmese army, the men are high-minded. The only pinups on the walls are chaste photographs torn from Thai mail-order catalogs of ladies in bridal gowns and taffeta...
...ordered choice: A statistical labyrinth designed to make Harvard students confused about their housing assignments. See also: Quad...
Leila is fond of exalted similes. "My heart blazes like Shelley's on that beach" (her boyfriend is back); "I wander in like Theseus into the Labyrinth" (she's in the wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that...