Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second meal Woolf describes, at a women's college, consists of a "plain gravy soup," stringy beef "with its attendant greens and potatoes--a homely trinity," prunes "exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth for eighty years and yet not given to the poor," custard to mitigate the prunes and biscuits so dry as to require jugs of water to wash them down. After this unsettling meal, she speculates, "We are all probably going to heaven, and Vandyck is, we hope, to meet us round the next corner--that...
Bessette walked down the aisle, wearing a fluid, bias-cut dress of pearl-white crepe. A panel floated from the waist in the back, in a suggestion of a train. She wore a veil of silk tulle, and her crystal-beaded satin sandals were from Manolo Blahnik, designer of pricey, fashionable shoes. In her hands, covered by long white gloves, she carried a small bouquet of lilies of the valley. The groom wore a dark blue single-breasted suit, designed by Gordon Henderson, with a white pique vest and pale blue silk tie. His boutonniere was made of cornflowers...
...they had to wait for his lungs to clear. The bottom part of both lungs had begun to fill with fluid. In the past, doctors had no way of removing that fluid, and the patient would die of pneumonia. "They clear the lungs through repeated suctioning," says Reeve. "They stick a tube right down into your lungs and pull out the liquid. You can't feel down to your lungs, but you can feel the tube go down your throat...
...recent years, the field of comparative race and ethnic studies has transformed in response to newly emergent social, political and intellectual concerns and theories. Several of these theories emphasize the fluid nature of culture and the ambiguity of any definitive categorization or description of culture itself. Although once rooted, perhaps, in a celebration of essentialized identities, in attempts to preserve what the Crimson editorial calls "the disparate cultures that comprise this country," scholars of comparative race and ethnic studies have recognized the impossibility of regarding culture as static and of defining identity as a stable entity...
This is wonderful authorly misdirection, with sharply drawn characters and suitably murky conflicts. Reality for the two swindlers, and possibly for the defense attorney, is entirely fluid, simply what someone can be made to believe at any given moment. Well into the book, the reader has not figured things...