Word: blur
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...warmth in the story. In attempting to sound poetic, the bizarre rhythm of the novel is instead cold and-self-consciously intellectual. The characters are presented in such an obscure way that they never seem real to the reader, and the entire story passes in a dream-like blur of images and events...
...Cohen, who herself read grant applicationsfor the Bunting Institute during the early 1990s,says much of Title IX law is open tointerpretation. With institutions like theBunting, technicalities can blur the meaning oflegal precedent...
...musical dances on, the story becomes so engrossing that the characters more silly and overused lines blur into a powerful larger picture. While Father is out on an arctic expedition, Mother discovers a live baby buried in her backyard--the child of Sarah and Coalhouse Walker Jr. Much to everyone's shock, she takes both baby and mother into her house, and its not long before Coalhouse himself comes a'courtin', enchanting the once-uppity white folks with his amazing piano-playing abilities. Unfortunately, a violent act of racism soon sours Coalhouse and Sarah's blossoming romance, and tragedy moves...
...feel like it was all a blur," she says. "I remember coming onto the floor for warm-ups, and it was just deafening; I could not hear a thing. I remember the last 30 seconds, looking up at the clock and going, 'Wow,' kind of being stunned. We screamed so loud that night. I don't think I've ever been more excited in my life...
October 28, like January 1, December 25 (I am Jewish, but that just makes it worse) and December 26 (Canadian Boxing Day), had always been an anticlimactic experience. But because this birthday would be less a fleeting blur of metallic balloons and singing cards than a crossing over into the world of the initiated, there would be no disappointment. The "day" was not the important part of this year's commemoration of my aging; 21 was the gift that would keep on giving...