Word: eyeful
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...however, the administration has at last entered the Age of Enlightenment. Perhaps acknowledging that few creatures other than bats can echolocate and that the human body can absorb only limited quantities of non-water-soluble Vitamin A, Harvard is installing torchiere-style fluorescent lamps in Yard dorms so that eye-weary students will be able to see vague outlines of their furniture--and maybe even their schoolbooks...
...forth. It seemed useless to go on with it." At this point, Wolfe's inborn personal reticence became an obstacle to his recovery. He once told an interviewer that he would not take his troubles to his best friend, and he has, in print, cast an unwaveringly gimlet eye on all the therapy manias of the age. "The Me Decade" was his much-quoted and derogatory sobriquet...
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is Morissette's follow-up to her big success. It's not a great album, but it's a greatly ambitious one. After the big splash of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette slipped into a blind spot of the public's eye. She went to India; she tested her physical limits in a triathlon; she passed on interviews. When she re-entered the studio earlier this year, she had more on her mind and much more to say; the songs on her new CD deal with such issues as false gurus and abusive relationships...
When an inspired and talented cast under the direction of Nick R. Parrillo '00 took aim at Beth Henley's difficult Crimes of the Heart, though, it hit the bull's-eye. Great Harvard plays usually work because they're big, smart and offer a thinking audience cerebral pyrotechnics and heady intellectualism; Crimes works because it rings true for anyone who has ever...
...Birthday Letters" was quite a departure. Hughes? main talent lay in his powerful depiction of the savagery of nature -? the brutally Darwinian animal world, the intense reality of the English countryside -? and a mournfully steady eye for detail first praised by his mentor T.S. Eliot. He was not a natural choice for poet laureate, whose official duties include celebrating the queen?s birthday and commemorating other royal occasions. Many feared that like Wordsworth, one of his predecessors in the role, his talent and love of nature would be stifled. But Hughes sparkled. His 1997 offering, "Tales of Ovid...