Word: brightly
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Early in the novel, for example, the story chronicles the misfortunes that result when Timothy Bright, a clueless member of a historically rich and influential family is persuaded by a violent-tempered drug smuggler that if he doesn't cooperate in an illegal transaction he will be turned into "piggy-chops." Obsessed with this image of flayed pig, Timothy steals money from his invalid aunt and invades his uncle-in-law's home. Soon, as a result of the desire of an unsympathetic cousin to be rid of him, Timothy finds himself speeding down the highway on a motorcycle under...
After presenting Timothy Bright and his family in some detail, the book abruptly shifts its emphasis, focusing on the Chief Constable. The Constable, finding the drugged Timothy passed out on his weekend home bed, hits him over the head with a bedside lamp. He then spends a significant portion of the novel trying to avoid public exposure by disposing of Timothy's almost lifeless body...
Perhaps it was symbolic that long-time zamboni driver Jack Kirraine retired last season after over 20 years of service to Bright Hockey Center as Harvard's home ice seems strangely rudderless these days...
...standing in the hallway after his final home game at Bright Hockey Center Tracy felt no profound sadness...
...only bright note in this announcement is that the grapes have not yet arrived at our undergraduate tables. Protests, letters and comment cards are appropriate if not imperative forms of protest. We Harvard students still have time to take the facts of the boycott into account and keep grapes off our tables...