Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looking for a gut. It sounds easier than, say, ‘Shakespeare’s Problem Plays,’” she reflects. “But there is something very mature about their approach. I think many are looking for a way to go back home, to work through their own childhoods.”In class, Tatar is both erudite and whimsical, eliciting quiet attention and gleeful laughter. Yet, as students left her lectures last week, no one would own up to considering a career in children’s literature...
...series to have any real chance at catching the Big Green.“We could play very good baseball against Brown, get a split, and it would probably eliminate us,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. For Harvard, this means going to the Bears’ home field, and taking at least three-of-four from them, preferably a clean sweep.In addition to the pressure that comes with a must-win series, a fierce rivalry has defined the matchup between the two teams for years. Clearly, there will be no love lost this weekend—last...
...home that morning because I had a three-hour graduate evening seminar on poetry and so I was preparing for that. I had the television on. I've done that since 9/11 just to see if things were going ok. Then a map of Virginia came up with Blacksburg highlighted ... I think, to be honest, I'm still reacting to it in many ways. I'll be reacting to it the rest of my life...
...SUNDAY: Start the morning slowly with Italian coffee and a breakfast panini at Grocer & Grind delicatessen, tel: (62-361) 730 418. Once you're awake, peruse the grocery aisle for locally made artisanal palm sugars, sea salt and coffee to take home as gifts and souvenirs. Or you can step around the corner to Jalan Oberoi and go gift-hunting in its fashion boutiques and design shops. Next, hop in a taxi and head west about 20 minutes to Echo Beach, a popular surf spot. Work up an appetite for lunch by putting the previous day's surfing lesson into...
...Opera, www.hotelopera.com.co, feature 14-ft. (4 m) ceilings and décor befitting the hotel's origins in a pair of adjoining 19th century townhouses. In its vicinity are the Teatro Colon, tel: (57-1) 284 7420 - a gold-encrusted, neo-Italianate 135-year-old performance venue that is home to the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra - and Artesanias de Colombia, www.artesaniasdecolombia.com.co, a government-sponsored showcase for handmade masks, pottery, jewels, carpets and other Colombian handiwork...