Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labors throughout the middle of the novel to thread his scenes together. He presents his readers with a scene and then, subtly, shows how it came to be. The early appearance of Stuart's diary, for example, is explained by a later scene wherein his wife snoops through his desk and alights on a computer disk. His non-linear development echoes the innovation of the cubist painters as it fragments, abstracts and reconfigures the narrative...
This help includes such service projects as a Family Help Desk outside the waiting room at the Boston Medical Center, staffed with Harvard students who dispense advice on topics ranging from health insurance, food, housing, job training or child care...
...look to your left and your right like they told you when you got here, but there is no one around. The Help Desk is closed. No computer science concentrator is there to come to your rescue. And you dare not call your House user assistant at this hour. You are utterly alone in the universe...
According to Rooney, Hallas had entered the Mass. Ave. office and asked for information. The female employee helping him left the room briefly. When she returned, she found her wallet empty on her desk, and the suspect had disappeared, Rooney said...
Gumbel seems like a fun boss (Hey, there's a plastic humanoid M&M behind his desk). He tosses a paper ball in the air as his producers pitch story suggestions, and even digresses from the matters at hand to suggest a movie rental (the Belgian crime drama Man Bites Dog). But he displays no loosey-gooseyness about what he wants. He quickly rejects stories that sound even remotely as if they could spring from the mouth of Steve Dunleavy. During the past months, he has told the world in almost mantra-like fashion that he doesn't want...