Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French, Depeche Mode is roughly equivalent to "fast fashion." Now forget that. Their sound has nothing whatsoever to do with "fast fashion." In a whimsically unimaginative fit, the band named themselves after a French fashion mag. So you can put the French-English dictionary away and concentrate on the music...
Moreover, students today seem busier than ever before. Jobs, extracurricular activities and other obligations keep students outside their houses for longer and longer periods of time. Meanwhile, a fast-paced hightechnology culture may also have contributed to the withering of House communities. Students are now used to grabbing lunch on the fly; they're habituated into spending hours alone in front of the computer. They do not possess a communal mindset...
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...just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is utterly irresistible. Its plot is so fast paced, readers may not even notice its weaknesses...
...H.M.S. Java when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment of Algerian gold intended to pay the Emperor's Muslim mercenaries...