Word: askew
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...woke up—an hour later than planned. I ran with hair flying and reporter notebook pages as askew as my rumpled skirt, dashing through the metro tunnels out into the (possibly) blinding sunlight. I knew all about the dangers of “solar maculopathy” and was determined to not make eye contact with my subject—and usually, archnemesis—the sun. A hotline had been established in Hong Kong for the symptoms of eye damage—blurred vision, holes in visual field, afterimages, and reddened perception. Most people didn?...
...accomplishment that has never been repeated.“The whole run to the national championships not only caught the university by surprise, it caught us by surprise...All of a sudden, we didn’t have a budget,” said George L. Askew ’85, who was a junior on the winning team. “We weren’t the most popular—that’s an understatement.”Having never won more than a Northeastern Championship title, Harvard Rugby Football Club members never dreamed that they would...
...accustomed to taking my 5 o’clock scotch in the company of other well-mannered gentlemen, blanch at the notion of hooligans loitering among us. They threaten our quietude, with their newfangled dungarees and brimmed caps turned askew, and not so much as a single article of tweed! They scream along to their wild rock-and-roll music—all fans of those British, mop-headed Insects, or Beetles, or whatnot—and exhibit all manner of inappropriate merriment...
...Number the Stars,” Lowry explains the combination of inspiration and craftsmanship required in writing. “My characters come to me fully formed, with names. So, I always start by placing them in a situation where something is a little askew.”After her lecture, Lowry offered some words of caution in an interview. “Publishing is in dire straits because of the economy and technology,” Lowry warns. She feels the biggest pitfall, though, is more fundamental. “People who think they want to write children?...
...conveys with her eyes, from 50 feet away, a schadenfreude-inflected delight as she hovers over him. As the play spirals further into fantasy, the stage artfully descends further into ruin. In the beginning, props and staging are wheeled in and out neatly; by the end, furniture lies askew across the stage. We are surveying the ruins of order as the definition of place and belonging change forever. “Perestroika” begins with a rigidly demarcated world in which we know where everyone belongs—Mormons in Utah, gays in New York City. As the play...