Word: fitful
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...because Samuels rejects a structure that would flatten out the ridges in the absurdity of American reality, he often meanders and digresses; some essays don’t seem to fit in the book’s overarching theme at all. While reading the essay about Super Bowl XL in Detroit, I was not at all sure how describing Stevie Wonder as a “playful, gigantic black baby who has absorbed all terrestrial sounds and language in a single gulp” or Aretha Franklin as a “300-pound mountain of congealed hurt?...
...heated discussions,” Clapham says. “You know, it could be uncomfortable, but that was also good for me, to challenge my own notions about what our culture is actually like, and how someone from Argentina might see it.”A STRUGGLE TO FIT INWu’s experiences working with the Clinton Foundation and researching abroad in Botswana and Swaziland exposed her to a different setting in the developing world. “You go to a developing country not to do quality research, but rather to widen your perspective on issues that...
...nationals.“We had a pretty disappointing team racing season headed into this,” junior captain Jon Garrity said. “We’d never even made the gold fleet, so we weren’t exactly sure where we’d fit in.”But everything came together at the right time for the Crimson’s co-ed squad, as the team rebounded from a slow start in Providence on Saturday to finish in a three-way tie for first at the close of the first...
...Pastor and Garry VanPatter, the team behind the firm Humantific, furiously drew and took notes. "He was really deep in the trees," Pastor says. The pair made sense of Palestrant's fuzzy ideas and turned them into huge, glossy posters with icons representing how the parts of his business fit together. Diagrams in hand, Palestrant went to venture-capital funds and returned with $40 million in start-up money...
...swag.” The destination for this do-up? Eleganza 2008. “I obviously need to step my fashion game up,” she explains. “There’s a lot of beautiful people at Eleganza. Just trying to fit in. Also it’s springtime. Rock the colors.” Rock the colors? Check. Rock the party? Next step. A poster of The Roots, a somewhat underground R&B group, hangs on the wall while a larger poster of Bob Marley is framed by separate photos of various other rappers...