Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book progresses and the narrative gains coherence, the purposes of Peck's structure becomes clearer. The stories express grief by talking around painful, precise facts; it's easier to imagine the way things might have been than to remember exactly the way they were. Is Beatrice John's mother who dies after a miscarriage, as the narrator of "Blue Wet Paint Columns" tells us, or is she his lonely step-mother, as we read in "The Search for Water"? Is Martin a runaway boy who shows up at John's Kansas house one day, or a grade school teacher...
...president Olivia D. Williams '93 saysthe group has begun to keep clearer records oftheir financial activities. "We've been reallyworking on documenting things," she says...
...Johnson Redbook Service's Retail Indicators recorded a leap of 10.4% in department-, discount- and chain-store sales over last year. The source of the spree became clearer with the release of the New York-based Conference Board's consumer confidence index for December. It showed nearly a 13-point increase, following an 11-point hop the month before. Says Redbook analyst Steve Marotta: "Consumers went from the ostentatious '80s, making sure that they had somebody's name on their pocketbook, to the '90s, when they pulled in the reins. Now what we are seeing is the result of pent...
Nevertheless, the second album, "...Best II," presents a clearer picture of The Smiths as we know them. The lyrics here crystallize the sense of delicate world-weariness: for example, Morrissey sings of life and death, "and neither one particularly appeals...
This has been Ashbery's mode for 20-plus years; to be "clearer," it suggests--to be more dominated by the literal--would be false to the process of thinking which Ashbery's lyric normally represents...