Word: effected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero, Joe Starling, is a brilliant painter who no longer paints (hello there, Papa H.). Becalmed, then stirred by the faintest of internal winds, he returns from the staleness of the East Coast to Montana, where he has inherited a cattle spread. Here the author novelizes industriously, with small effect. Events occur; characters are brought to life, then enter, speak and exit; but Joe remains a not very interesting puzzle to himself and the reader. Only Montana itself is luminous, and for a few paragraphs here and there McGuane is still a marvelous writer: "The huge cottonwoods along the river...
Currently the University is trapped in a vicious circle on the issue of minority and women representation on the faculty. The effect of the undiversified faculty is to discourage talented young minorities from applying for positions because of a lack of mentorship and networking possibilities. So the faculty remains entrenched, narrow and lacking in role models for a new generation of scholars...
...Momo, doesn't knock you to your knees, it will definitely leave you wondering how the drummer didn't pass out from sheer exhaustion. An inspired combination of South American salsa and merengue styles, country and western twangs and violin concertos, Rei Momo has an almost thoroughly upbeat effect that is certain to make you dream of spending next year's Carnival in Brazil...
THESE suggestions are largely structural. But structural changes can have a substantial effect on the debate of a body that has not yet decided exactly what it wants to do. Once the council has regained the faith of students through internal reform, it can begin to act instead of just reacting, taking on the issues--political or otherwise--that are most important to the student body. Maybe then the council can take itself a little more seriously and earn back the confidence of the student body it purports to represent...
...graffiti, which included swastikas and insulting remarks about the police, appeared to be the work of "local youths bent on vandalism and using graffiti and vandalism for shock-effect," said Lt. Donald C. Whalen of the Wellesley Police...