Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for the fact that Dave ends up killing his father--who deserves it--there is nothing extraordinary about the plot; it's just like countless fairy tales. At times it even seems trite. Dave, the handsome gypsy, takes up with Susan, a rich blonde American girl. Dave, the dark and mysterious gypsy, dreams of California. And, typically, neither the romance nor the emigration can ever come to pass. Although Groffo's hired killers botch their job, they manage to gash Dave's face. Susan is too horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon...
Despite these University-wide additions to the menu, the fact remains that there are differences in both the quality and type of food offered in Harvard Houses. Weissbecker admits that whether a House has its own kitchen or not could influence the quality of food preparation...
...report ripped apart the University's accounting methods, noting the records "were in fact so bad that much of our effort was devoted to reconstructing records for personnel costs...
...government's detective work uncovered the fact that about $5800 was credited to a National Institutes of Health grant, and about $600 charged twice to the same account. In addition, the auditors found evidence of some incorrect accounting procedures, such as the method of calculating salary payments to researchers...
That is, in fact, the best thing that can be said of this book--it satisfies in a way that few of Updike's recent works, though so precisely tooled, can manage. By taking on the wide spaces, forgetting the parking lots and PTAs and roadside motel rooms, he opens up new canyons where his imagination can wander, and reflect...