Word: embarkment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, I've got designs on more than details, so I embark on my carefully-prepared, no-nonsense pitch: Reubens' work has undergone a critical reappraisal in the last several years." I lecture Anderson, perhaps overdoing The Harvard Angle. "Praise and critical attention have been showered on his work from a number of unlikely sources, including The American Museum of the Moving Image. "Also, several serious papers (full of words like 'reify' and references to Lacan) have been published that connect the Pee Wee Herman phenomenon to recent trends in art. Finally, all this attention has spurred the re-release...
...then and this is now. And this is now is not looking good. A great lacrosse team upsets teams like Princeton and Virginia. A good team has no trouble beating Ivy League cellar dwellers like Dartmouth. But the sign of a once-good team that could be about to embark on an alarming decline is a team that little by little starts losing to inferior opponents. And that's true in almost all sports...
...remember, back in the day (during my first year), when reading period was reading period. It was an unbroken stretch of days in which you could embark upon the process of psychologically preparing yourself for those fearsome three hour trials by fire that lay ahead. The weather that spring of my first year was better than this semester and I was, ahem, perhaps less than attentive to my studies during the term than I should have been...
...enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark, probably dooming the juveniles to an early death. The story is a reminder of the thin margins that sustain life, even for creatures as durable as the emperor penguin, which has thrived for millions of years in the harshest climate on earth...
...senior in college applying to law schools, foremost in my mind was the knowledge that I was about to embark on a journey that could best be described as a foray into the bottomless pit of hell...