Word: appendix
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...avoid. As the caption reads, the diagram presents an "alternative sexual response cycle--an ongoing continuum of pleasure, orgasm and ecstasy." Although this continuum requires some further explanation, the visual aid provides a critical framework for discussion. To corroborate the scientific nature of the writing, the book includes an appendix with flow charts, graph and sample questionnaires...
...Cage's failure was occasioned by his own audacity and the intractability of human nature. Confucius, who analyzed and annotated the I Ching more than two millenniums ago, summed it up in the book's appendix: "Change has an absolute limit." Cage's fate was that, by chance, he found...
...most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact, they...
...that 1914 season which exemplified Brickley's greatness? The captain of the Crimson eleven, Brickley was kept off the gridiron early in the season by an inflamed appendix. Nevertheless, he returned for The Game and booted the final extra point of the 36-0 defeat of the Elis, extending Harvard's unbeaten streak to 26 games to close his career. Or was it proved during the Yale showdown the year before? Harvard had never won at the Yale Bowl and had never beaten the Elis twice...
These pieces suggest that Bernhard is taking herself or her stardom a little too seriously. The book concludes with an appendix comprising "unfinished pieces" which Bernhard says she's included because she "always find[s] it interesting and revealing to see what people don't include." She should probably have left well enough alone; few will find Bernhard's reject pile "interesting" enough to rummage through these pages of sparse jottings--some haphazardly typed, some scrawled by hand, many with cross-outs, corrections and editing arrows left intact...