Word: strained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget the stress test. Roby has to be worried about the strain these blowouts are putting on his players' psyches. What has started as an enthusiastic team is slowly being pushed into the ground, blowout after blowout. Now, perserverance...
...strain on lawyers has become so bad that two books have recently been written to warn the unwary. "Most law students don't know what they are getting into when they start law school," says Susan Bell, editor of Full Disclosure: Do You Really Want to Be a Lawyer? (Peterson's Guides; $11.95). "Practice is not L.A. Law. For all of the financial rewards, the toll is tremendous." Deborah Arron, author of Running from the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession (Niche Press; $12.95), agrees. Says she: "Law has become all consuming...
IUSED to enjoy reading the newspaper. I would gloss over the articles, read some summaries and peruse the editorials. It was a daily, casual event that kept me abreast of the times, but didn't demand much intellectual strain...
...wondered--and we're still wondering--what sort of experience it must be for East Berliners to come to the capitalist West for the first time. What are they feeling over there? The most interesting strain of the media's commentary on their experiences has been the wonder East Berliners have felt upon trying out bourgeois life for the first time--upon realizing, for instance, that there could be a hundred different kinds of sausage, all in the same store, each truly distinct from the rest...
...unnamed narrator of Mario Vargas Llosa's ninth novel has practically everything in common with his creator: age (early 50s), nationality (Peruvian), occupation (writer). Similarly, the two share a common cosmopolitanism, having spent large swatches of their adult lives in Europe. An autobiographical strain has often appeared in Vargas Llosa's fiction, perhaps most notably and entertainingly in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982). The Storyteller captures the author -- and his surrogate -- in a subdued and ruminative mood...