Word: detour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking first place in the 100-yard butterfly, Cromwell went on to win the 200-yard individual medley, and swim the third leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay. These impressive showings were all back-to-back, save for a quick detour to the showers where Cromwell lost his breakfast for the team...
...association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext to the story, but they aren't probed much. Still, in rare moments, Jones' virtuosity grins up at us, leaving hope that this is just a frustrating detour on the road to better storytelling...
...State Armory to present a fashion show? Perhaps to throw the girlishly innocent clothes into sharp relief. Jacobs' show was suggestive of a group of tiny yet gorgeous schoolgirls who had lost their way but were bravely striding on. His palette of pale blues, grays and metallics, with a detour into a striking series of gunmetals, kept it chaste. "The drawstring must be a trend," whispered celeb guest Lauren Holly. Not to mention cap sleeves, shirring, scalloped edges and a lot of stuff a romantic six-year-old would favor, including aprons and petticoats. Except these petticoats were cellophane...
...DETOUR...
...wounding 64 people. A Hamas activist was caught at the scene. Arafat condemned the terror, but the Americans feared that if Netanyahu wanted a pretext to leave, he had found it. Instead Bibi declared a suspension of the talks (soon quietly relaxed) except on security matters, and proposed a detour--a quickie deal on troops and security, to be followed by new talks in two to four weeks...