Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school about you, and you may not be bothered by the fact since you feel you have nothing to hide. But do you send all your mail on postcards? Conduct all your telephone conversations on speakerphone? Leave a note on the door when you leave your room giving your exact destination? Of course not. We all have a reasonable expectation of privacy on campus, a privacy that in most other respects is kept sacred...
...were making a last struggle to keep Clinton out of the House impeachment trap. Minority leader Gephardt and his staff were trying to persuade other G.O.P. moderates to join Representative Christopher Shays on a visit to Clinton in person, hear him say something like "I lied"--just not those exact words--then emerge from the White House and tell the press he had said it. But there were no moderates moderate enough for that...
...shortage at Meribah is solved when God directs Moses to strike a rock with his staff, and water pours forth. When food runs out in the wilderness, he promises to "rain down bread for you from the sky." Of all the biblical wonders, manna may admit to the most exact scientific explanation. (Its name is derived from the Israelites' reaction and may best be translated, "Whatta?") Scripture describes manna as "a fine and flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground," which falls with the dew but melts when the sun grows hot. In June in the Sinai peninsula...
Hochschild's curiosity was indeed tremendous--King Leopold's Ghost is an extraordinarily dense work filled with Steamboat schedules, diary entries, calculations of the price of harvesting rubber from 1897 to 1904 in exact francs per kilo, and fantastical newspaper headlines from various countries. Yet Hochschild's carefully controlled pen never allows the data to dominate the story; he integrates the information into a fluid narrative style. This story is far from a series of dry laundry lists. Hochschild begins each chapter with a vivid character portrait that provides an accessible segue into the heart of the story...
...their appearances. The Loft Theater drove me to the library. I was convinced that the portrayal of Leslie and Sarah as merpeople was a crazy, futuristic idea that Emerson College students used to rejuvenate an otherwise standard conversational Albee plot. I was wrong. Although Albee does not provide an exact description of their physiques, he makes enough indications of their crawling in and out of the water to justify the slithering amphibians I saw on the stage. The plot is not merely implausible by virtue of the fact that two of the main characters are a sort of unique water...