Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience on cold Sunday nights generallynumbers less than 30, according to Westfall...
...leaves are down and wet enough to muffle bootsteps. Color gone from everything, except from larches and pines and, if it counts as color, the chipped-porcelain white of birches, ghosty in November dusk. It is just cold enough and bleak enough to call up a tribal recollection: an imminence of winter death in the air and desperation for warm meat to survive--the Neolithic memory that makes hunting poignant...
...Beck's lyrics, though elusive, are not nonsense. They obsess about issues of death and decay, and they strike at something deep, evoking feelings of sadness, melancholy and regret. "A worm of hope/ a hangman's rope/ pulls me one way or the other," he sings on Cold Brains. On another track he sings, "Treated you like a rusty blade/ A throwaway from an open grave...
After The Birthday Boys, no reader will ever experience the cold in the same way, while Bainbridge's Titanic novel says more about hubris and class distinctions than any gazillion-dollar epic by James Cameron ever could. And Master Georgie reminds one, again, that war correspondents do not always get it right. As Bainbridge's group slogs across the Crimean peninsula, men and animals dropping from cholera and in battle all around them, the scene becomes surreal. At one point a soldier shows up with his ear blown off. "He kept shaking our hands in turn and saying how happy...
...Freshmen are, so to speak, left out in the cold" Li said. "Our goal is to get to them ahead of time and make sure that they have someplace to stay...