Word: ramblinge
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THE INDIVIDUAL WEIGHT of these images and arguments are magnified through Burgess's skillful weaving of the religious and the blasphemous into the tapestry of Toomey's narrative. It proceeds almost as a stream-of-consciousness, rambling through the described decades and countries, but always preserving and highlighting the important...
WITH FAST, INTUITIVE brush strokes Carlos Diegues" Bye Bye Brazil captures the spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down...
Tabatabai in September offered a remarkable test of his credentials and Iran's willingness to get down to business. He sent the West Germans a message that within the next few days Khomeini would publicly spell out four demands in exchange for the hostages' release, and provided the...
If the novel is, as Randall Jarrell suggested, a long narrative that has something wrong with it, the short story of the past decade might be said to suffer from a tendency toward perfection. Talented writers keep popping up in the few magazines that still publish fiction. The technical level...
But his rambling soon becomes coherent as he explains his theory of man's three brains: the "reptilian" brain which programs man for his needs for food, shelter, and copulation and the general survival instinct; the "affective" brain which contains the memory and responds appropriately to pleasure and pain, reward...