Word: clara
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...opens with a (heavily repeated) hook—“I am Clara”—with which the main love interest introduces herself. It then breaks into an eight-part narrative, in which each part chronicles a different night that the unnamed narrator spends with Clara. He meets her while lurking behind the tree at a Christmas party and is instantly and fatally drawn towards her. Smart and mean, Clara scintillates with brilliance and bristles with animosity and fragility. She and the protagonist constantly dance around each other as they try unsuccessfully to achieve intimacy...
...bulk of the narrative follows the protagonist and his longings, desires, and solipsistic rants as he yearns after Clara and analyses her every gesture. Though laden with the narrator’s passionate obsession for Clara, “Eight White Nights” chronicles an essentially chaste love. Aciman denies the reader the full range of the sensuous prose that he unquestionably mastered in his first novel, “Call Me By Your Name,” and consequently creates a more emotionally tentative work...
Lin’s five points broke his previous season low of six points, which Lin recorded twice this season in games against Army and Santa Clara...
Prior to her 2008 nomination to a judgeship in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Koh began her career at the Department of Justice and then moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles to prosecute violent crime and fraud cases. She later worked as an intellectual property litigator in Silicon Valley with the firm McDermott, Will & Emery...
...games after scoring a career-high 27 points against Santa Clara, Casey notched 19 points and 10 rebounds Saturday, recording the first double-double of the season by any Harvard player...