Word: gaspingly
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...with The Comfort of Strangers, I came to the end of something," he says. "I had been in the grip of the last gasp of existentialism, writing about people adrift in cities that are not named. Now I want specificity. Maybe it's a function of aging. I feel as if I've got less time left; I want to make sense." Not perfect sense; his later novels, like The Innocent, Black Dogs and Enduring Love, are still full of absurdity and enigma. But the characters have a more full-blooded life. Combine that with McEwan's companionable mind--strange...
...tally proved to be nothing more than the Saints’ last gasp. Though Harvard could not manage an insurance goal—the Crimson hit the post twice from long distance in the final minute—St. Lawrence did not seriously threaten to tie the score...
Imagine our surprise, then, when The Crimson Staff, on its nightly stroll through the North Yard, happened two weeks ago upon a Loker Commons full of gyrating undergraduates, pulsating music, and, gasp! cheap alcohol. It was an experience so wholly alien that we left immediately, writing the whole experience off as some bizarre form of group hallucination brought on by the fumes of certain Crimson staffers in an office next to ours...
...year, so far. The video looks like an iPod commercial, and the minimalism of the beat makes me question even my own masterful production work on FruityLoops. “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” incidentally, is probably the Neptunes’ last gasp...
...dining hall to House life. Those students who are “unfortunate” enough not to live in a House convenient to the Wrap have the advantage of a dining hall where you can find a seat, sit with a gaggle of your friends, and (gasp) actually recognize the people who are sitting around the room. It’s this recognition of who lives in your House (and who doesn’t) that creates an immediate sense of community within the Houses. It’s no coincidence that in the Quad Houses, where the dining...