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...loaded with meaning, they probably belong to Efram and are thus not dreamt. Her awareness of the arbitrary nature of meaning seems more the state of mind of a language philosopher or an applied linguist (i.e. of a post-deconstruction academic) rather than a young adolescent. The issues that haunt Pella are the stuff of very recent debate and need to seep through a whole super-structure for a teenager to unknowingly apply them in her everyday life-even if she is "mature for her age," as other characters describe her. Pella might thereby embody a prophetic vision on Lethem...
...full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
...Martin's cart and Sales's lay-up, showing just how monolithic the sense of compassion has become in our society. This is not to slight Martin or Sales; by all accounts, both are tremendous individuals and devoted athletes. But both fell victim to unfortunate circumstances that have always haunted and always haunt athletes...
...haunt of Romance Studies concentrators and classics buffs. Since its founding in 1856, Schoenhof's Foreign Books has attracted scores of foreign nationals, academics and multilingual Cantabrigians...
...There's one loose end, however, that could come back to haunt him. This "special group," it says, will also operate under "specific detailed procedures which will be developed given the special nature of the presidential sites." Wording so loose, it almost cries out for Saddam to defy the spirit of the deal -- by drawing up a whole new list of inspection-blocking "special procedures...