Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...woman assaulted by D. Drew Douglas, also Class of 2000, originally contacted the peer counseling group Response. Upon their advice, she says she steered clear of UHS and headed to Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, whose rape crisis intervention center is among the best in the region...
...woman assaulted by D. Drew Douglas, also Class of 2000, originally contacted the peer counseling group Response. Upon their advice, she says she steered clear of UHS and headed to Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, whose rape crisis intervention center is among the best in the region...
...stories of Felicity and Andrea unfold in separate chapters, and it takes over 260 pages for the two plot lines to finally come together. Only upon finally encountering Andrea and experiencing her first orgasm does self-awareness come. One thing that is clear throughout the book is that the two women need each other to be complete; they are two halves of a single entity, the messiah, come to save the world from the apocalypse...
There is something sad about these plot twists, for in them one is exposed to an imagination that strives for credibility and falters. Codrescu's attempts to integrate supernatural images into the novel are neither fantastic nor interesting, but merely commonplace and uninventive. And while it is clear that he is trying to set a foundation for some interesting interactions between famous historical personas, he is completely unable to invent an interesting conversation between any of them...