Word: bulks
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...bulk of the action takes place inside Rabbit's mind, a locale that has become increasingly entertaining. Updike has mastered a supple stream of consciousness that perfectly conveys Rabbit's darting curiosity. This former high school jock may lack all but the rudiments of an education, but he is one of those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment...
Most observers have depicted Afrikaners as more hard-line and conservative than English-speakers. It is true that the Nationalists receive the bulk of their support from Afrikaners, and most of those who vote for the Progressives are English-speaking. Marijuana is widely smoked by English youth but rarely smoked by Afrikaners. But there is no fundamental difference in outlook. Beckett believes that only about 5 per cent of the whites desire geniune reform. The overwhelming majority of English-speakers would fight just as fiercely as the Afrikaners to preserve their privileges. The young airline employee confirmed this view. "There...
Despite the potentially disruptive presence of repeated flashbacks, Fish moves with assurance and gather a subtle momentum. Part of Engel's confidence with the subject may come from familiarity--with the people, and also the locales. The bulk of the novel takes place in Cambridge, and the evocation of the Square and its ambience is one of the book's chief pleasures. Engel is a fierce Cambridge partisan and a familiar figure strolling its streets in the evening. He writes of Harvard Square as he would a favorite tattered piece of clothing, with an affectionate and knowing...
Because of that possibility, Pettinato's new account of religion at ancient Ebla is especially significant. The bulk of the 1,000 tablets and fragments are dreary (though revealing) marketing or political records. But about 150 are literary, including myths, epic narratives, hymns to deities, rituals, collections of proverbs, and incantations against everything from demons to scorpions. Some of Ebla's 500 deities had the same names as the ones which were later to tempt the Israelites in Canaan, notably Baal...
There is also Irving the physical phenomenon. He has dark, heartthrob good looks. Though he seems slight-he is 5 ft. 8 in. tall and 155 lbs.-his bulk is imposingly carried in a wedge from shoulders to waist. Not since Hemingway has a well-known American writer worked as hard on his body as he has on his prose. Rarely a day goes by when a bout at the typewriter is not followed by a roll on the mat with his sons, a three-to six-mile run or a session bench-pressing weights until he tires...