Word: beyond
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Perhaps Munro's reading has never strayed beyond the odd John Grisham novel, in which case his analysis might be justified. However, Grisham is not normally taught in English departments, and with good reason. Literature is one of the oldest means we have of making sense of experience, and it exists not to entertain us, but to help us understand ourselves and the world we inhabit...
...than personality and symbolism if she hopes to turn inchoate interest into real support. Curzio and others like her want to know the candidate's positions on the issues, but Dole didn't provide many answers in her canned, 25-min. Des Moines speech. If she had a theme beyond her resume, it was the nobility of public service--eloquent at times but loaded with platitudes. Her signature line--that Ronald Reagan's famous question "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" should be rephrased to ask, "Are we better?"--echoes Al Gore...
MARIO CUOMO: There are other living legends like Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, whose remarkable powers as baseball players approximate DiMaggio's. But none of these had the beyond-the-baseball dimension that gave DiMaggio a unique place as a popular icon. Their reputation, their image, is purely baseball. Williams was amazing at bat. Mays was a better hitter, almost as good an all-around player. But the truth is, DiMaggio appears to be irreplaceable...
...come into fame as the star of HBO's sublime series The Sopranos, the story of a suburban mafioso's efforts to deal with an identity crisis. The show shares the premise of the current hit film Analyze This, but unlike that comedy The Sopranos has a rich life beyond the wackiness of its conceit. For help with his troubles, Gandolfini's Tony Soprano--overburdened Mob manager, conflicted husband, beleaguered son--attends sessions with Lorraine Bracco's Dr. Melfi in scenes that betray the exhaustiveness, risibility and discomfiture of the 50-min. experience in a way that movies and television...
...TIME that the committee's top officials have asked the software giant for $1 million--which, if delivered, would place it among the uppermost donors to either party. A committee spokeswoman wouldn't confirm the amount but said it was expected that Microsoft would give "a very considerable amount" beyond the table...