Word: contact
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think people do live a veiled life, [a life] of illusions. Culture delivers it, politics deliver it, some art delivers it, technology delivers it - it's very easy to lose contact with life as it really is. And that's why I keep returning to the human body. It's not ghoulishness. I believe that it is the central fact of human existence. And yet it's very obvious how art and religion and many other cultural things try to take us away from the body reality - for obvious reasons. Because if you accept the body, you accept mortality...
...circumstances? In keeping with its pervasive and carefully modulated echoing of Henry James - especially of his open-ended and slippery ghost stories - this is a book full of hauntings, specters, doubles, reflections and revenants. They stalk the two types of art or mimetic representation that the book brings into contact with each other: Tom's, in language; Nelly's, in images. They also mark the lives and memories of the characters and, crucially, the narrator's own discourse, for one of the things that de Kretser has undertaken is a kind of psychogeography of contemporary Australia - a study of strata...
...March article had accused Amaker of improper contact with a recruit who eventually committed to Penn, guard Zach Rosen, and claimed that Blakeney had recruited Crimson freshmen Max Kenyi and Keith Wright before he was employed by the school, which would have been a violation of NCAA rules...
...Parts of Rove 2.0 look familiar to those who have followed him over the years. After fielding e-mails from reporters, pundits and operatives through multiple election cycles - and apparently saving their contact information - Rove has built up the best e-mail list of opinion makers in the business. Those players suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of mass mailings from Rove every time he pens a new op-ed piece, enhancing his reputation as the king of direct mail...
...first quarter, Argentina's Luis Scola, a 6-ft, 9-in. 230 lb. center, gave America's Dwight Howard a good tug. The 6-ft,. 11-in., 265 lb. Howard makes Mr. Universe look bony, so he didn't fall. But the refs swallowed the whistle, inviting more contact...