Word: sectioning
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...stay up late with them, I want to finish their problem sets for them, drape crisp button-downs on them, fold their laundry with them, and throw their old Gatorade bottles away for them. Even when I’m sure it’s been one skipped section or several un-returned phone calls too many, they look lovingly at me (slightly red-eyed from heavy partying) and silently beg, “Save me princess, save me.” We aspiring heroines, we obliging females, we are only too happy to comply.Speaking of royalty...
...wider world of straight lit.From a purely mercenary perspective, Hollinghurst’s self-labeling as a “Gay Writer” makes good business sense–when his work is criticized, supporters of gay writing as an institution tend to rally to his aid. When Section 28, a British law (now repealed) forbidding promotion of homosexuality by public authorities, threatened to bar his debut novel “The Swimming Pool Library” (1988) from libraries, its sales only grew. Similar counterattacks followed a review by John Updike ‘54 of Hollinghurst?...
...result of this combination is something similar to the feeling Darnielle described when introducing the fifth item on his set-list (“Old College Try,” from “Tallahassee”): “A cross-section of really really wanting the person you once loved to die… and suddenly thinking that they look totally hot in this type of weather...
...jovial lifestyle of the villagers of Pachigam before the various occupations of the contested land and religious polarity became law. Though the reader does not yet know that Boonyi is India’s mother, the strained way that Shalimar looks at India when they meet in the first section, as well as a particularly ominous threat (“I’ll kill you and if you have any children by another man I’ll kill the children also.”) in the second seal their fates and leave readers feeling that they know...
...Stopforth were teaching a Justice section or giving a Biochemistry lecture, these elements might not matter. But his course, VES 113, “Altered Landscapes” is one of Harvard’s few classes to be taught mostly outdoors. Each week, the class boards a shuttle to the Forest Hills Cemetery, where they have obtained permission to create landscape-based artworks. As Stopforth puts it, “We experience the environment moment to moment, for the pure physical pleasure of being...