Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Saturday, the Harvard men's lacrosse team picked the final option and allowed a climactic match against Notre Dame to slip through its fingers...
...novel loses a great deal of its magic and most of its charm when the focus moves to America. Rushdie's America is cold and empty, with a few discotheques and famous faces but lacking energy and life. The essence of America seems to slip through Rushdie's fingers, and a rich history of pop culture is reduced to a handful of amusing cameos. Narrator Rai becomes myopic in this foreign environment, keeping Vina and Ormus at a distance from the reader and failing to portray them as more than celebrated anomalies...
Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...
Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...
...Science concentrators take liberal arts courses and do well," Michel says. "Non-science concentrators slip by with a much weaker preparation in the science...