Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary predecessor, confronting the very madcap hypocrisy running through her bloodline that Lowell did in his poetry--the very hypocrisy that drove the latter many times to violently manic depressive breakdowns in various mental hospitals along the East Coast. However, Stuart sees the situation not as mentally debilitating but as a forum for exploiting her established sense of wry humor and caustically tongue-in-cheek comedy. In a sense, the psychiatrist's diagnosis at the end of the book is actually an excellent summation of the significance Stuart is searching...
...these catalogues that the book isweakest; the chapters recounting the nomadicwanderings of Stuart's aunts and uncles--up anddown the East Coast, back and forth across theAtlantic--are entirely forgettable. Of marginalinterest in these lengthy dives into the past arethe glimpses of recent and not-so recentHarvardiana: contempt for the ghettos of NewHaven; romantic entanglements shot to hell over asquash game in Adams House; a complete mentalbreakdown in Lamont Library; a tour of a chintzyQuincy House bachelor pad belonging to her famedcousin; and of course standard turn-of-the-centuryRadcliffe gripes about having to settle forhusbands from the A.D. rather...
...While the ideas that gangsta rap preaches, such as cop killing, are far from condonable, they are presented with such obvious showmanship that ultimately the music is simply a harmless, creative outlet. Although gangsta rap is clearly fading, there are still several bright spots remaining, one being the West Coast trio of Cypress Hill...
...women--who have worked in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the Balkans--will spend this month on the East Coast lecturing at universities and meeting with non-governmental organizations, government officials and policy makers...
Despite the historic claims of both sides to the narrow strip of land on the East coast of the Mediterranean, there is a cold reality that extremists (and unfortunately moderates as well) on both sides stupidly ignore: Two human peoples, who have a history of terrible conflict, are living in the same physical space and neither is going to leave. It is time to put thousands of years of history on hold and come to terms with that fact--and to ensure a peaceful existence for those who have the fortune of not yet being born into this terrible conflict...