Word: stringing
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...Gilbert puts it, she and her lover are "sentenced to marry." This makes the book a supreme act of navel-gazing, even for a memoir. While the legal complexities are being worked out, the two kill time by traveling together. Along the way, Gilbert, ever the good journalist, gathers string on marriage and love from various sources, including the humble Hmong women of North Vietnam, seagulls, a humble frog-farming family in Laos and her humble 96-year-old Grandma Maude back in Minnesota. (Gilbert practices humility with vigor, even when sweetly patronizing Third World cultures.) Her process is exhaustive...
...squad now heads back to the Midwest for its final string of tune-up games before the Winter Olympics open in Vancouver on Feb. 12. Bassett, McDonald and Buesser will return to the Crimson as the team prepares for a weekend set with Princeton and Quinnipiac...