Word: copious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blame the kitchen. I’m caretaking a house this summer, equipped with an enviably stocked kitchen that sports a copious array of bizarre and specialized cutlery, none of which I can even begin to name, let alone discern its functionality. But this hasn’t stopped me in the past week from putting together a layered potato, blue cheese, pear, fennel, and caramelized onion timbale; whipping up apricot cupcakes or concocting a spring pasta with chicken sausage, artichoke hearts, red pepper, eggplant, and zucchini. I hand-pack my own hamburgers; I’ve creamed, broiled, double...
...mails to members of the political science department about him. During a phone interview with Finkelstein conducted by The Crimson, listeners in the background—whom the professor did not name but said were colleagues on the DePaul faculty—audibly expressed their assent regarding the copious extent to which Dershowitz circulated his testimony about the man that he has called a “fraudulent scholar” and a “Jewish anti-semite...
...hours. Men with balls of steel do power hours during section. And men with balls of cut diamond do power hours in a section for a class they had no connection to. This last feat was recently accomplished by two senior boys from Quincy House. Somewhat surprisingly, given the copious amounts of beer they had to keep on their persons, they were not found out by their adopted TF. Or maybe grad students really, really just don’t care...
...rapid-fire con-man act sounds more pitiable than convincing. Schneider’s Lagrand is a one-trick pony of affected mannerisms—a special-ed voice and a twitching hair flip—that becomes seriously annoying by film’s end, since he has copious camera time. In terms of secondary characters, the movie takes a “Super Troopers”-esque stab at parodying small-town cops, with such amusing situations as shootouts at the Neighbors’ Market and interrogations concerning the differences between vans and minivans. It also typecasts Zooey...
...rock stars of the book do not fail to present interesting theories of nonfiction and nuggets of advice. Tom Wolfe details four technical devices of a novel that can assist narrative journalists: “scene-by-scene construction,” “the use of copious dialogue,” “the careful notation of status details,” and “point of view.” Susan Orlean advises everyone to “read your stories out loud so you can hear how you tell stories...