Word: filaments
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GRISLY QUOTE: "Using the blade like a paring knife, I slice through a pinky-finger-sized filament...
...made a web of interconnecting lives come together,” Quinn said of Solano. “The filament was poetry...
Maybe so, but when you correct certain problems in the postmodern novel--its cartoonish characters, its repetitive paranoia and absorption in Big Patterns--you get a better book. The Corrections does not "solve" the mystery of family life, but it renders its mysteries with the fine filament and moral nuance they require. There are already an impressive 90,000 copies in print. While that's not quite John Grisham territory, Franzen has so far made more than a million dollars. This could be another reason why he's feeling optimistic about the literary novel these days. He may be right...
...beach taken from unexpected angles by Shannon Stackhouse '00 (including "Untitled," the black-and-white print shown to the right), the layout of the works seemed to be somewhat haphazard, taking away from their individual effects. However, the free sushi and a strong performance by the undergraduate band Filament attracted many leaving the VES thesis exhibition