Word: seem
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Gerneralities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Though increasingly nervous, Noriega did not seem bothered by the loud rock-'n'-roll that American troops were blasting at the embassy through loudspeakers for three days. But the speakers also carried news broadcasts reporting that his troops had stopped fighting after he abandoned them, that U.S. officials were moving to freeze funds he had stashed abroad. When the Vatican protested the rock-'n'-roll offensive and the music stopped, Noriega lived in relative silence, with only a Bible to read...
...home in London's fashionable Kensington, Antonia Pakenham Fraser Pinter is a composition by Gainsborough. Her English skin would make peaches weep in their cream. Blue eyes seem to savor a secret, shared but not revealed. She is tall, not willowy but womanly, and at 57 she is, by any standard, beautiful...
Does any of this matter? As far as Pynchon's books are concerned, no. Yet in this celebrity-besotted era, the spectacle of someone avoiding exposure is naturally intriguing. And Pynchon's fiction, with its emphasis on suspected conspiracies and coded significances, makes him seem a dandy candidate for a guru. If he ever went public, he could be buried in acolytes overnight. Which is a fine reason for Pynchon to stay right where he is, in enviable possession of a mystique far bigger than any single, flawed, vulnerable human...
Completely real also seem the anger in Timothea's voice when Colm is late for his first poetry reading and the grief in Colm's cries when his father dies. Neither actor overshadows the other; the orchestrated give and take between them makes the show intensely moving, and saves it from artificial sentimentality...