Word: excerpt
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...fooled by the book's title, though, for Kugel's book is not a close reading of biblical poetry. Indeed, the psalms, songs, proverbs and prophecies that serve as the "subjects" for each chapter are little more than jumping-off points for explorations of more general Biblical ideas. An excerpt from the book of Amos, for example, gives Kugel the opportunity to discuss the nature of the Biblical prophet, while the quotation itself receives only minor attention. And, while famous Psalm 137--"By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept"--allows Kugel to comment on exile as well...
...addition, the Erotic Excerpts section reviews sexually oriented movies and films and hosts some daily features like the Photo, Quote and [Sexual] Position of the Day (past examples: the Alpine Downhill and the Fire Hydrant) to fill out the site's content. Keep an eye out for Moby Dick's timeless whale-penis passage excerpt...
...Mainly Jazz showcases their variety with funk and precision. Watch for Fabiana Kepler's choreography to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal," modern ballet pieces by Elizabeth Santoro and dance instructor Shannon Colver, a work by Boston jazz Professional Tracy Tedesco, and for the tutu-lovers out there, a short excerpt from the traditional ballet Don Quixote...
Such painstaking--and painful--revisionism suggests why, three weeks before its publication and a week before the appearance of a long excerpt in Vanity Fair, a Vatican theologian had already branded Hitler's Pope a "shameful libel." Cornwell, a practicing Catholic, says he originally enlisted "on the side of all these chaps in believing Pius had had a really bad deal" at his critics' hands. But research into the lightly trod territory of Pius' decades-long German involvement before his papacy left Cornwell in a state of "moral shock," he says. "The material I had gathered amounted...
While the statement is attributed to both the University and HUCTW, the statement only included one excerpt from an HUCTW official, and the union is expected to issue its own four-page statement next week...