Word: digressional
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But far more importantly, Assassin teaches undergraduates how easily the raptor succeeds. Students often remind me of my chickens, twisting heads sideways and down to see with single eyes, always facing the light while scratching, never enjoying the stereo view of hawks and owls and eagles. Like my hens cooped...
Jones made her name in the 1970s with brutal tales of sexual abuse and violence. So when she came forth with last year's The Healing, a quiet, sweetly engaging novel that took a National Book Award nomination, readers found themselves surprised as much as delighted. Jones returns with the...
The subject matter bounces from Hitler's last words (the Further entertains a few possibilities, including "BINGO!," before settling on "I never asked to be born in the first place") to the final moments of his first wife's existence (an event which is treated with great respect and tenderness...
Unfortunately, the most interesting sections of the book--when Walton moves away from the minute intricacies of constructing the Taurus and focuses on the larger issues surrounding car building in America--are all too rare. Walton explains, in an enlightening digression, that the design of the "'96 Ford Taurus was...
Ritts' most recent book is entitled Africa, and its focus on the contrast between the dark-skinned subjects and the brightness of background and sky is pure Ritts, as are the extreme close-ups that examine the subjects so intently. However, only a few of these photographs are displayed in...