Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Borgesian game of hunting a lost text may remind readers of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where monks searched for the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, and it would not be a bad comparison. Like Eco, Pavic loves to play games with the textuality of the text--the Dictionary is more toy than book--and, like Eco, Pavic has profound doubts about the power of language to communicate...
...name's not so bad, either...
Well, if last year's freshman sensation JoeJuneau (16-29-45) does not suffer a bad case ofthe sophomore jinx, the Engineers will certainlybe a better squad; although they may not play acleaner game...
...Someone asked me the other day what I thought about Michigan coming to town. I said, `it's good news and bad news. The bad news is it's a typical Michigan football team. The good news is that they'll only be here for 60 minutes."--Northwestern football Coach Francis Peay discussing the Northwestern-Michigan football game. Northwestern lost...
...Things here got pretty bad," he said, "which shows how much we've go to do." He proposed "a ground-up restoration of political discourse, starting with the small local papers...