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...biographer's telling of the story so far proceeds smoothly enough but also quietly, since Bellow, like great authors in general, has spent his most adventurous and significant periods alone in rooms, filling up blank pages. The youngest of four children, growing up in Chicago, he decided that he would become a writer and proceeded, with relentless determination, to do so. His early novels attracted critical respect but little money; he was nearly 50 before Herzog (1964) produced his first big payday. As his fame grew, he attracted what seems like zillions of awards, including the 1976 Nobel Prize...
...most disturbing aspect about fights between best friends, as I'm sure most of us know, is that friends know just where to aim. And Carmichael and Berwick show themselves to be masters of this point-blank verbal sparing. The quick one-liners keep flowing throughout the play, even as the tension increases between the two men. But the source of the hate between the two is revealed as they reenact a scene from a childhood summer, in which a girl-chillingly portrayed with both detachment and energy by Agresta-dies while they race each other to the point, leaving...
With Harvard on the attack, Mattison found freshman fullback Lauren Cozzolino, who in turn found Westfall. Westfall launched a rocket from point-blank range that eluded Demers and gave the Crimson the 3-1 lead...
...seconds later, Harvard had some golden opportunities of its own. Ara's point-blank shot was stopped by Moss, and Jon Oslowski's rebound shot was also denied...
...reporter about the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills and how we students learn to do well on the exams [EDUCATION, Sept. 11]. Your story included part of a quote from me about my reaction to the TAAS: "Your heart starts pounding, and you think, 'I'm going to go blank.'" But I was disappointed that you didn't publish some other things I told your reporter. I also said, "But then you see the questions, and you think, 'Oh, I know this stuff.'" The story made it sound like I was scared, and I was not. SARAH TELANEUS...