Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glad to absorb whoever can't make do in the dining halls," he said...
...movie proceeds, taking time to linger with complex subsidiary characters, letting us absorb the detailed richness of its imagery, contextualizing its story in a broader social history (unlike most movies, it is aware of working-class unrest and Marxist attempts to organize it early in this century), two withering ironies are drawn. The first is that the father is one of those sad souls who can express love only by tormenting the object of his affection. The other is that his rationale for bad behavior--that he's building the boy's "character"--is not entirely wrong...
...growth malaise that afflicts Japan and other Asian nations would be a catastrophe for China, a "bicycle economy" that must keep pedaling fast to absorb all the workers being put on the street by cutbacks in the civil service and state industries. Estimates of the number of unemployed run as high as 142 million, 12 million in the cities and the rest in rural areas. Tensions caused by layoffs and other wrenching social changes were cast in stark relief three weeks ago, when the Wuhan bomb explosion killed 16 and wounded 30. Suspects include both disgruntled workers and Muslim separatists...
...scrub, a sophomore backup guard, on the last great Princeton squad, the team that won the National Invitational Tournament in 1975. I can't take much credit for the victory, except that I did occasionally force the first team to work up a sweat in practice, and I did absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball...
...second listen to the first few minutes provided an opportunity to more fully absorb the complexities of Lin's remarkable performance. HRO lockstep accompaniment was seamless. The sheer physicality of the performance was mesmerizing. Stretching string players and puffing wind players provided little visual contrast to Lin as he leaned and swayed with his violin, and the stage seemed a kinesthetic blur of motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases...