Word: dogged
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John Hollander does not move me. His poems are not verses that romance-filled 16-year-olds also reading The Bell Jar will dog-ear and gloss with pink pens. No "how-do-I-love-thees" cling to Hollander's pages like damp, juvenile kisses. Hollander's newest book of poetry, Figurehead, insulted my delicate romantic sensibilities at first with its apparent lack of poeticized emotion and what seemed overly intellectual, self-conscious and anal attention to grandiose metrical dexterity, complete with a hyper-inflated vocabulary that rivals Webster...
...attitude of complaint about the unfair hardships of adolescence. The main character, Hajime, is a young man growing up in a "small, quiet town" in Japan. He lives a normal life in a neighborhood where all the houses match and everyone has a cat or a dog. But he's different--he's an only child in a world of big families, and that means, of course, that he, like all children, must deal with some degree of ostracization. At the novel's beginning, it seems that this is going to be the focus of the story--that...
...February, the Department of Veterans'Affairs also launched an investigation in responseto letters form Bodkin's representative, BarneyFrank '61 (D-Mass.), and the non-profit governmentwatch-dog group, the Project on GovernmentOversight...
...Americans who have long since grown used to the dog-eat-dog world of hostile corporate takeovers, none of this sounds new. But for Europeans, the ground is shaking. A bare three months into 1999, the first year of Europe's single currency, the pace of deal making is already fevered. According to statistics compiled by Securities Data/Thomson Financial by the end of the first quarter of 1999, merger activity involving European companies has reached $345 billion, up from $145 billion in the same period last year...
...Cost of one beer and one hot dog at Shea Stadium, the Mets' home turf...