Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What if Leakey, or anyone else, should discover an intact Australopithecus africanus with only 23 ribs?
Caroline attracts the very particular Elgin by looking aristocratic, reading French novels and expressing an affinity for the symphony, all of which somehow set her apart from the other girls on campus whom Elgin finds so vulgar and vapid. Caroline confesses her loneliness; Elgin decides this means she is looking...
POMME, THE HEROINE of Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker, has a face you might pass a hundred times without noticing, only to discover on the hundredth-and-first passing that it is indeed beautiful. Simple in feature and freckled, the face must be studied carefully before you begin to discern...
But even while he lived intimately with these young men--at 23, Herr was older than most of the Americans in Vietnam--Herr was conscious of the tension between them and himself. In "Colleagues," one of the essays in Dispatches, he examines a thought that he describes in less detail...
Whatever Hamill is trying to say about incest falls short of being at all comprehensive. He should have stuck with the fairly insightful thoughts on why Fallon likes to box, that he began with: The story revolves around an Irish kid from Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom...