Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really felt like when I got into Harvard it was this great gift...that's different now: it's tempered. But I'm just as enthusiastic...
...following these two paintings we are plunged not into "Les Demoiselles D'Avignion," his great masterpiece of 1907, but the exhibition gift shop replete with Picasso cups and saucers. Though it would be unfair to fault the curators for the exclusion of this painting, which would clearly have overshadowed all of the others in the show, one can't help feeling a sense of frustration upon leaving the exhibition's final gallery. We crave follow-through or some kind of resolution after bearing with so much of Picasso's self-searching work...
Larry's marriage to Dorrie is doomed far before the ceremony; when Larry laments his "deficient love for Dorrie" on their honeymoon their relationship has already entered a long, slow period of decline. So Larry discovers his true love during the bus tour of England that was a wedding gift from his parents. One afternoon the tour stops at Hampton Court, a large maze outside of London, and Larry the florist is entranced. He wanders around, lost, but he has found his passion in life. Shortly after he and Dorrie return home, he plants his own maze in his backyard...
Shields' lapidary, natural prose and her gift for storytelling make the first fourteen chapters a delight to read (unfortunately the last, longest chapter, "Larry's Party," is an anticlimax). Writing dialogue is obviously easy for Shields. Sometimes it is difficult to believe that you don't know her characters personally--the people you know speak the way she writes...
...this environment, fundraisers say campaigns are used to solicit large gifts and usually to double the annual gift revenue. And when an institution isn't in a campaign, they are just fundraising...