Word: distinctives
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...setting them up to measure a Gish Jen or Toni Morrison against the cultural standards of a Marlow or a Swift—while some Western European standards may inform their writing, the same literary tradition does not wholly apply to these authors, who descend from a canon remarkably distinct from that of old European or English works. Students will be even less equipped to approach works of authors such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, who writes in English, but whose national and cultural experiences are informed by situations far different from those of canonical writers...
...weekend set your mood for the week. It was also the tail end of the game's heyday. Not in terms of the fitness and skill of the players, or the size of the crowds. All those things are greater now. But because the teams then were so distinct, with instantly recognizable jerseys, and the players seemed more rounded than today's. It was footy pre-corporate box, pre-media saturation, and in its honor Nable penned a script - his first - that is nostalgic yet so gritty you can almost feel the sting of a painkilling needle. He took...
...Erian said that he has worked to rebuild the internal portfolio management team so that it now covers five distinct areas. HMC has hired managers from the industry to head these teams, restructured its group of external managers, and improved its risk-analysis capability, El-Erian said. El-Erian said that the changes he has enacted appear to have been effective in establishing stability for the largest university endowment in the world...
...troubles that exist in distinct pockets can ripple outward. In the northern suburb of Thornton, Stephanie Brown is trying to sell her four-bedroom house for $445,000, just enough to break even on her investment, since she's eager to move closer to her new job. Yet in a month on the market, she's had only a single showing. On one side, she is up against home builders who are knocking $100,000 off the price of houses similar to hers. On the other, she faces a market flooded with foreclosed properties, like the hundreds up for sale...
...down ever more restricted avenues, into Color Field pictures made by pouring paint directly onto canvas or Minimalist canvases of one color. By the early 1960s, the supremely influential critic Clement Greenberg was ordaining that painting had a historic destiny that could be realized only in work in which distinct form and deep space gave way to flat, thin washes of color. Some very good art would meet that description, by Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and so on. But a lot of it had a distinct whiff of the endgame about...