Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eons, the frozen north was terra incognita, the work of a mapmaker's imagination. Now it is the turn of writers to define its contours. The latest lyricist is Journalist Barry Lopez. "Much of the tundra," he notes, "appears to be treeless when, in many places, it is actually covered with trees--a thick matting of short, ancient willows and birches. You realize suddenly that you are wandering around on top of a forest." Icebergs the size of Cleveland drift through the dark waters, and sulfur butterflies mysteriously rise in the short, delirious summer. Mirages provide a weird history...
...taping the sections, or reconstructed classes inside the lab, filmers do not use special lights like those that are used in the movie business and try "to make the classroom situation as close as possible to an actual classroom setting away from the lab," says Boehrer. "Our facilities enable us to pretty much show teachers what they look like and what students look like...
College officials have declined to comment on the accuracy of the annual Crimson poll, saying only that it varies from year to year. Officials have also refused to reveal the actual house preferences expressedby past freshmen, making any independentdetermination of the poll's accuracy impossible...
...forward--no, pull me back. The reader could be away for two years and return to find Yasser Arafat still debating whether to accept U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 and thus "implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist." Editors could save a forest of newsprint by printing only actual developments, manfully resisting a dogged repetition of what is already too familiar about the situation, including what is unpredictable. Journalists have their own derisive name for such wordy speculations: "thumb-suckers...
...script. As he read his pages, Toad considered: The whole toad is captured here. L'ecriture, c'est l'homme (Handwriting is the man). Or: L'ecriture c'est le crapaud (Handwriting is the toad). What collectors pay for is the great writer's manuscript, the relic of his actual touch, like a saint's bone or lock of hair. What will we pay in future years for a great writer's computer printouts? All the evidence of his emendations, his confusions and moods, will have vanished into hyperspace, shot there by the Delete...