Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ugly: The philosophy behind this one is that most people are trying to make themselves look more attractive, so why not be truly original and try to make oneself look ugly? After all, beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness can be rotten to the core...
...lesser hands, it might have been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story...
Chandler's most immortal creation -- co-produced by Humphrey Bogart -- was the quixotic figure of the gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, private eye and public conscience, sitting behind his pebbled-glass door with an office bottle and a solitary game of chess. What made Marlowe special was simply the fact that he was nothing special, no genius like Sherlock Holmes, no Connoisseur model like James Bond. Just an underpaid drudge with, as one mobster says, "no dough, no family, no prospects, no nothing" -- except a habit of making other people's worries his own, and a gift for walking in on corpses...
...Feinstein had focused more on the color behind the court, instead of the action on it, he could have pulled...
Last year, the Hawks--an average team in the Seaboard Conference--should have been an easy victim for Harvard. Instead, they were a menacing foe who shocked the Crimson with a come-from-behind win, 99-86. The game was one of the few low points during Harvard's best season ever...