Word: though
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Rather expectedly, he becomes attracted to a student, though his obsession arrives not in the dewy-eyed, nubile form but in the unlikely person of Angela Argo, a fierce, skinny and multipierced "punk Chihuahua" who offers up a novel, chapter by chapter, for Swenson's critique. Flummoxed by her talent and flattered by her praise, Swenson finds himself drawn to Angela in increasingly unprofessorial ways despite his seemingly sturdy marriage. Though he suspects she may be unstable--and a pathological liar to boot--Angela's pull leads Swenson to a bungled sexual encounter and what proves...
...professor, but she has also constructed her collegiate climate as a latter-day Salem, tyrannized by the puritanical forces of sexual-harassment policies that demand some sacrifice. However, by presenting neither character as an obvious victim or villain, the novel maintains a level of suspense, momentum and humor. And though the hypocrisy of the political-correctness movement has been amply explored elsewhere, Prose still manages to find fresh ways to lampoon...
...play avoids predictable paths. It is not a thriller--though the tension builds inexorably. Nor is it a diatribe about the victimization of women. Theresa, played with empathy and toughness by Mary Beth Fisher, is indeed a victim, but also a strong, fallible, fully realized character. As the terror mounts, she is forced to call the police, move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa...
Drake, alas, detected nary a peep. Nor has anyone else since then. Even after spending thousands of hours scanning the skies, at myriad frequencies, at a cost of more than $100 million astronomers have yet to detect a single credible signal, though the most distant star probed is barely 1% of the way across the galaxy...
There is one force, though, that is not covered by the standard model: the force of gravity. Einstein's general theory of relativity gives a good account of gravitation at ordinary distances, and if we like, we can tack it on to the standard model. But serious mathematical inconsistencies turn up when we try to apply it to particles separated by tiny distances--distances about 10 million billion times smaller than those probed in the most powerful particle accelerators...