Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Start with the palm trees -- the king palms, windmill palms and date palms by the hundreds that grace the sprawling 8,200-acre campus. Beneath their gently waving fronds lie beds of fragrant star jasmine and flowering ice plant. Then there are those strapping, clean-cut young men and women, tossing Frisbees in the perpetual sunshine, lounging on the grass in cutoffs and T shirts, cycling along special bike lanes on their way to buy frozen yogurts ("fro-yo," to locals) or to play a few sets of tennis. Finally, there are the buildings, the picturesque, mission-style structures with...
...absorb, assimilate and assort all these phenomena. "Odd that a thing is most itself when likened," writes Wilbur, extolling the ability of language, metaphors, similes to capture the spectacle of reality. Even then, abstractions can be unsettled by the tug of the here and now. A bluefish swims beneath...
...strikes and runs unseen beneath...
...Beneath the banter, both were uneasy over the issue. Jackson's present mission is to win as many delegates as he can, starting this week in Pennsylvania and climaxing in New Jersey and California. Austin calculates that California is the one big arena where Jackson might stage a dramatic upset. Democrats there have a contrarian history of shafting the front runner, and Jackson's operatives were even putting a perverse "win by losing" spin on their situation after New York. "Now it's okay to vote for Jackson, because he's not going to be President," an adviser explained...
...people anyway, the actors as a group make an effective transition from the light and silly first act to the whiny and petulant second act. But I feel sorry for Molly Hoagland, who has to stand erect and keep a straight face while Trig Tarazi hides and busies himself beneath her skirt, and for Celia Wren, who has to deliver a somber soliloquy about how, as a middle-aged divorcee, she rediscovered masturbation...