Word: snippets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...your efforts, this haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion--a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex--and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk. His is a graphic version of the anomie found in a Raymond Carver short story, with a social-historic sweep and unexpected, if fleeting, grace notes. And that may be this melancholy book's uplifting message: even in the most emotionally barren settings, there is still something...
...would ask you how you're doing, but any idiot who's glanced at a newspaper or overheard a snippet of water-cooler gossip knows you're doing just fine. Quite a feat you pulled off in Louisville this weekend, shuttling Bob May back into obscurity and cementing your reputation as a golfer for the ages. If I were wearing a hat, I would take...
...front of their New Haven house, and the Liebermans were having trouble sleeping. Somewhere around 3 a.m. Hadassah Lieberman stuck head out her bedroom window and said, "Shhh, too much noise." Hadassah says she was still half-asleep in bed at 6:55 a.m. Monday when Joe heard a snippet on TV that he had been chosen to be Al Gore's running mate. "Come on Joey, don't kid around," Hadassah told him. "Then the 'Today Show' had this whole big story about Joey becoming the candidate." She doesn't know how it happened that the media learned before...
...disease. They will present fresh evidence that other factors--high-fat diets, for instance--may substantially elevate that risk. And most exciting of all, they will discuss the first clinical trials of compounds that target what many believe to be the cause of Alzheimer's disease--a sticky snippet of protein known as beta amyloid. A controversial yet compelling hypothesis--long championed by Selkoe, among others--contends that excessive amounts of beta amyloid are toxic to neurons in the same way that too much cholesterol is toxic to the cells in blood-vessel walls...
...hard to exaggerate the effect music can have on the human brain. A mere snippet of song from the past can trigger memories as vivid as anything Proust experienced from the aroma of his petite madeleine. A tune can induce emotions ranging from unabashed joy to deep sorrow and can drive listeners into states of patriotic fervor or religious frenzy--to say nothing of its legendary ability to soothe the savage breast...