Word: apartness
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...university and the marriage amount to the same for the Belseys, a family torn apart, far too fast, when a conservative English-Jamaican clan, the Kipps, moves into the town, the college, their sex lives...
...time, that is, until they discover, about twenty feet apart, an airplane full of cocaine and a long-lost ship full of a billion pounds of gold. At this point, my roommate Derek C. Dorr, ’08, ever the fan of craptastic cinema, said, “I wish Ocean Eleven guy [Scott Caan] would get shot.” Word...
Told from two generations later and a world apart, Shane White's North Country (NBM; 96 pages; $14) seems superficially completely different from The Quitter. Where Pekar explores the life of a Jewish immigrant's son in post-WWII urban America, White's experience is that of an nth-generation non-denominational Christian growing up as the child of Vietnam-era parents in the farmland of upstate New York. In spite of this, both books share themes of violence, the legacy of parental neglect, and the power of personal expression to move people beyond their crushing circumstances. For a first...
...they’re back at Harvard and struggling to catch up on everything they missed while they were away. Once-inseparable groups of friends have grown apart, and formerly quiet freshmen are now hard-partying seniors...
...Abbas's soldiers are posted lazily at the entrance to what used to be the main Israeli settlement bloc. While the citizens of Gaza rip apart the remains of the settlements and tour cheerily around in trucks emblazoned with Hamas flags, the soldiers are making afternoon tea and sheltering from...