Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Council members say they hope such incidents do not recur next fall. They say the revamped council will benefit from its new bylaws. But even if the bureaucratic solution proves to be sound, the efficacy of the council seems to depend more on how resolute the members are in pursuing a coherent agenda than on how rigorously a list of rules frames their work...
...self-proclaimed novel looks like a collection of unrelated short stories alternating with brief italicized passages. The stories are vastly different, but appear connected by a system of names and settings: Kansas and New York provide the locales; the narrator of each is named John; Beatrice, Harry and Susan recur, although always as different characters; and each contains an enigmatic figure named Martin...
...constellations whirled and skidded around you." That is very much how Ondaatje proceeds. One by one he introduces his characters, and slowly he unlocks their secrets, leading us through their lives as through the darkened corridors of a huge and secret house. Loves flicker, footsteps echo, lines of poetry recur. All four feel their way through darkness, by hand and memory, and with all the phantom sensuousness that darkness brings. The effect is a little like Borges on a love-potion...
...Raphael. Their works, he said, "demand to be studied and meditated over many times. For though we now paint following a different course and method, if it is not established upon this kind of study, ((our)) painting may easily end in ruin." This is why Michelangelesque poses often recur in Ribera's early work, such as the half- ruined, still impressive Crucifixion, circa 1625, whose twisting Christ is based directly on a famous Michelangelo drawing...
...MORE THAN TWO MONTHS, THE WORLD'S FIRST baboon-to-human liver transplant patient seemed to be improving. Doctors successfully treated a mild case of tissue rejection a few weeks after the ground-breaking 11-hour operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The problem did not recur, and by the end of July the new liver had tripled in size, matching a healthy human organ. But late last month a fever set in, followed by an infection -- possibly caused by an injection of X ray-sensitive dye. The liver began to fail, and then, within a week, though...