Word: domain
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course of reporting for an article - and it's obvious. The sympathetic, at times fawning, book relies heavily on sources several circles outward from those who actually know Michelle. The end result is a book that reveals little about Michelle Obama not already in the public domain. There are tidbits here and there - as a corporate lawyer, Michelle handled accounts for Barney, the purple dinosaur - but readers already familiar with Michelle's life story will be disappointed...
...Fifth Avenue, "a magnificent building constructed of a pale grey sandstone in the classic lines of the deco era." There was a time when writers and artists could live there--a few still do--but now the apartments start at $1 million-plus, making it strictly the domain of the wealthy. ("Money wants what it can't buy," Bushnell writes, "class and talent.") The friction between those two worlds--rich and poor, crass and cultured, New York present and New York past--gives the book its heat. Well, that...
...imagine their wedding night. The girl is required to lie back and think of England - or at least that vast portion of its acreage that is the Duke's domain. What he may be thinking of is unimaginable to us. Essentially, he is grimly standing to stud. Alas, Georgiana proves incapable for the longest time of producing male children. She is, however, capable of producing gossip. She is a fashion plate, a gambling addict, a drinker, a fiercely loving mother and, even though women did not have the franchise, a shrewd participant in Whig politics. At a certain level...
...relentless transitions to flashback are not always smoothly effected, and de Kretser's appropriation of the discourse of literary critical theory can occasionally bring a jarring register to the domain of fiction, but even these jagged edges are spellbinding because they are so intelligent, constantly forcing us to look under the skin of things. There are all kinds of terrors lurking within the heart of the book - these are for the reader to discover - but the one that is most palpable is the undeniable fact that this book is touched, like Rilke's "terrible angel," by the terror of greatness...
...Australia and New Zealand - and transforming rugby union as well. As recently as the 1980s, players of Maori or Pacific Island descent were rare in the elite ranks of union and league in Australia, and well outnumbered in New Zealand. Broadly speaking, union, amateur until 1995, was the exclusive domain of affluent private-school alumni, while league was the professional game of the white working class. The few Maori or Islander players who broke into the latter were often racially abused by spectators and ostracized by teammates...