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...explain in layman's terms what indicators you're looking for? The process we're following is the rise of magma from depth to the surface. That gives off signs. One of the most basic is earthquake activity. Magma, as it rises, breaks rock to make room for itself. As the pressure lowers on it, it degases; it's like opening a pop bottle. We pick up the vibrations from the gas and magma. Since the magma has to make space for itself as it rises, the surface of the volcano deforms and we can look for those deformations. Then...
...fucking has far greater emotional resonance than mere excreting” by way of comparison between mindfucking and bullshit, the reader’s ribs must be getting a little sore.Even when McGinn does turn to more substantive commentary later in his book, it seems to lack depth and direction. There is not much to learn from his facile remark that “Fascism and Soviet Communism...appealed to latent prejudices, resentments and anxieties to manipulate people’s minds” and thus managed to “approximate the mindfuck.” Likewise, anyone vaguely...
...former addict who is painfully honest about the difficulties of overcoming addiction is named Frank. Mun’s “Miles from Nowhere” successfully creates an historical snapshot of New York City, providing effective reference points for a specific time and place without revealing significant depth or context. Pop cultural tidbits are peppered throughout the novel—family portraits include men wearing velvet suits and jheri curls—but the work fails to address the root of the era’s ubiquitous despair. Joon is constantly surrounded by a group of young runaways...
...tonight,” freshman hitter Matt Jones said. “They really got us out of position and we couldn’t handle a lot of their serves. I wouldn’t say that it was a lack of depth that had an effect on our offense tonight. Rivier just didn’t make as many errors and they served very well.”“We felt that we had been playing really good defense coming into the game, but we didn’t do a good job tonight...
...success Harvard has enjoyed all season, it’s hard to believe just how far the two teams have come since Saretsky took the helm just two seasons ago. As one of the smaller teams in the Ivy League, the Crimson doesn’t have the depth other top-Ivy teams enjoy. Rather, this small but mighty group has relied on a mentality emphasizing the idea of unity in a sport so individualized by its events...