Word: jolt
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...Only Problem has any formal difficulties, they lie in the beginning of the book. Harvey is the novel's central and most appealing character; but the story does not begin by focusing on him. Although Spark's narration is usually smooth, the reader feels something of a jolt when the camera begins to follow Harvey's life exclusively. Here the author seems to have had an unclear idea of the nature of effect she wanted for her novel; she seems to have been torn between making it a cartoon and making it a movie. Perhaps this is not a great...
CONVENTION. Why did a campaign announcement, a tactical move, send shivers up and down the spines of so many American women, so many American men? Why, on Thursday, July 12, 1984, did a jolt run through American society, one that caused men and women to stop one another on streets and in offices across the country to discuss the news, one that generated bursts of good feeling-and nervous glances? Because a political taboo of two centuries' standing had finally been abandoned: a woman, at last, is an election away from being a heartbeat away from the most powerful...
...merit determines Britain's next poet laureate-not necessarily a safe assumption-then Philip Larkin, 61, will get the job. In that event, the Queen's subjects had better brace themselves for a jolt. Larkin can speak for England, but it is the gray, postimperial England of rationed hopes and undercutting humor, the England of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, which was dedicated to Larkin and is regarded as his youthful portrait...
...drink is to order spirits in from outside. People call liquor stores that service the bush from Anchorage or Fairbanks, ask for E.S.P. (expedited small package) rate, and pay $36.75 freight for 50 lbs. of goods. Regular rate from Anchorage is $46.45 for twice as many pounds; double the jolt, slower to arrive. Perry Daniels, who drives for Fran, had ten cases of Budweiser coming in the other...
Gray and others, though, are concerned that some savings institutions have imprudently sold the loans to people who can ill afford them. Mortgage companies in such booming states as Florida and Texas have touted very low, so-called teaser rates that jolt upward in succeeding years of the mortgage. One Houston lender, Alpha Mortgage, offered a one-month introductory rate of 4⅞% last year. The offer was never repeated. Says Alpha President Ron Redd: "If you're not careful, borrowers will just go out and spend the difference on something else and then be in trouble when time...