Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Davies populates the novel with the unseen but mysterious forces of medieval angels. But in What's Bred in the Bone Davies brings them to life. The Daimon Maimas and the Recording Angel narrate the novel. This little conceit provides the structural premise of the book, and it wilts fast...
With exams coming up, Delaney Smith hopes there is no let-down, especially after the team's emotional win over Dartmouth. Both Penn, with its fast-break and perimeter offense, and Princeton, with its strong inside game, will pose serious challenges to the surging cagers...
...seen it. Probably on late-night TV, after Letterman. Or possibly at the movies, for in an inferior sort of way, Twice in Lifetime will remind you of a diluted Kramer vs. Kramer (the male version of what happens to a family after divorce), An Unmarried Woman (the slightly fast woman with precocious child version), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (the strong, earth mother woman with normal child version...
Twining these elements into narrative strings, running up crescendos of motifs and replaying them on different instruments of drawing, Bartlett played fast and loose with the old saw about art aspiring to the condition of music, even if the fugue was thin and scratchy in parts. The work's elaborately systematic nature pleased those who took system as an index of virtue in art. But because the system was full of quirks, and especially because it depicted something--landscape, which is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel--other viewers, tired of the dry oats...
...Vice President of the U.S." for his presence, though she carefully refrained from specifying which Vice President. The evening, with all its tiptoeing over sensitive ground, brought a sparkle of amusement to the eyes of Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk. "The right-wing litmus tests are already coming fast and furious," he said, "pushing Republicans even farther to the radical right." That, no doubt, would have brought a sparkle to Loeb's eyes...