Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ECHO's image is a balancing act--though the organization maintains a low profile so as not to intimidate students, it strives to be noticed by people looking for help with eating concerns...
...every European capital in the world. I lived in Amsterdam, London, Paris and went to Israel, Egypt, and just kept traveling continuously. And all the time I would write, I had notebooks, and I'd never keep them because I was traveling. I think it was just the act of writing that I really enjoyed. I would write constantly. And I never really kept anything until my first book, Breakfast in Babylon when I decided that I needed to keep some of it. But I was ready then. I was preparing the ground. It didn't matter that what...
...sister Orla seems to have escaped OCD, though she does pass it to her son who is almost completely undone by it. The characters are aware of their compulsions even as they execute them, and, like Keelin as she lives out Aisling's life after her, are doomed to act out roles they have no control over. Martin's characters are fully and enticingly written, emerging from the text like the heroes of an epic poem. Culminating in Aisling herself, who even in childhood seems to be a giantess, the figures spring hyper-real from this surreal journey narrative...
...those kiddies who still can't spell can take in the tunes at the Korn concert tonight. The only act on campus competing with their brilliance, which creates song titles such as "A.D.I.D.A.S." (an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"), is the Satire V crew. Rob Zombie shares the stage. Worcester Centrum Centre, Foster Street, Worcester...
...Because of changes in federal campus-crime reporting laws included in last year's Higher Education Act reauthorization, schools like Harvard must now divulge more information about crime on their campuses to the Department of Education...