Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For a brief second, there is silence in the room. Memories of FloJo praying on the track, her performance in the Olympics, her grace and her character appear.
At issue is developer Graham Gund's plan's to construct a six-story complex of retail shops and offices at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Arrow St. While members of Gund's staff have said they are merely trying to construct a structure that will mix well architecturally...
Aaron's tale bristles with arcana picked up during the author's career in Washington, where he served as deputy to Zbigniew Brzezinski on President Carter's National Security Council, and on Wall Street, where he is a board member of the Oppenheimer investment firm. At times, Aaron can get...
There is a character in The Satanic Verses, a scribe named Salman, who commits an unthinkable sin. His job is to write down the revelations of God as recited by Mahound, Rushdie's fictional prophet. But the mischievous scribe repeatedly changes Mahound's words. When the prophet finally realizes that...
Rushdie, whose first name is also Salman, seems to share the character's skepticism about the authenticity of God's revealed word. But the real-life author will be lucky if he enjoys the same clemency as his fictional counterpart. His literary twisting of the Koran is the central transgression...