Word: abound
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...winter, the first reading/exam period of the new millennium is finally drawing to a close. For the average Harvard student, the past three weeks have been filled with a dash of studying, a smattering of paper writing and a whole lot of white noise. Of all the euphemisms that abound for this strange month-out-of-time, the most appropriate (although "hell on earth" might be a close second) is definitely "procrastination period...
...understand how drastically the landscape of the online shopping world has shifted since holiday season 1999, you could do worse than pay a visit to Bluelight.com based in San Francisco. Incongruities abound. Here we are at a converted warehouse (major points for geek chic), but it's in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, Middle America's greatest open-air tourist trap, miles from the hipster hangouts. Inside are all the signs of an unstuffy start-up--pets roaming the halls, people with green hair. Yet what gets them really jazzed is flipping the switch that signals a virtual blue...
...often irksome form of English. Run-on sentences sprawl: "I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I'd still be waiting to get cremated." Redundancies abound: "The tall buildings and large courtyard with a watchtower must once have been the residence of a rich and powerful family at one time"; "I have a foreboding premonition." Some usages defy explanation: "Many pretty young girls have also suicided...
...often irksome form of English. Run-on sentences sprawl: "I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I'd still be waiting to get cremated." Redundancies abound: "The tall buildings and large courtyard with a watchtower must once have been the residence of a rich and powerful family at one time"; "I have a foreboding premonition." Some usages defy explanation: "Many pretty young girls have also suicided...
...take out A Passage to India, but I know, like Sisyphus, that the struggle is useless. I can't concentrate under the present conditions: heavy, Dantean sighs abound; cell phones go off and everyone reaches into their pockets because they don't know their ringer style; bodies and bags are strewn over the floor in such disarray that you don't know which is which and the image reminds me of spaghetti and meatballs...