Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queens is definitely not one of the most famous boroughs," he said. "Except for L.L. Cool J, they don't have much there...
...human male at the end, simply because the author has decreed a character transplant. But Proulx's language does not admit "yes, but" or "really?" When it works, which is most of the time, it sweeps aside all ideas, her own and the reader's, and allows no response except banging the hands together. Without this mad blaze of confidence, her next novel might have been a hanky dampener. Accordion Crimes traces an old green accordion from hand to calloused hand among turn-of-the-century Italian and German immigrants in New Orleans and the lower Mississippi. Told by Proulx...
...they fit into predictable molds. Bob, the straight-as-an-arrow, law-abiding, conformist believes in the Christian God without question or doubt. Case, the rebellious, radical, ex-druggie has seen it all, and while she admits she once worshipped drugs as her god, she now believes in nothing except the here and now and perhaps in retribution. Cyrus, thought it's difficult to decipher his rambling stream of consciousness full of cult lingo, believes in power, and perhaps in death and evil as ways of obtaining and maintaining it. However, while these philosophical debates are not as gripping...
...would be faithfully preserved by photographers, like Ansel Adams at Yosemite. But 20th century painters from Dove and Hartley through Pollock conveyed them into more modern idioms, often with great power and poignancy. Landscape, in fact, was the matrix in which most of the impulses of American abstract art, except for its weaker strand of purist geometry, unfolded. In no other country except England and Australia was the relation between abstraction and landscape so strong, but in America it had a special persistence because of its Transcendentalist roots and overtones of mysticism...
...shown that Columbine High officials ignored signs that Harris and Klebold were a threat. Among those warning signals: a videotape the two boys made simulating a school bloodbath; and some verbal threats made by Harris. Yet even if the school blundered, Colorado gives the government immunity except in rare cases...