Word: lande
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...terrors. Though the place and time in which the novel occurs is limited to a single day in a very small village, what seems stagnant and solid as permafrost liquefies and then reforms as it is seen from each character's perspective. Just like the zone between the land and the sea that is never dry for the lapping waves, what seems neatly defined land and water mixes, leaving enough room for interpretation to fill the novel's 450 pages. An iceberg is both shelter from a storm and a ripping force of destruction, Newfoundland waste and an Eden...
...description at first seems extraneous,trying the patience, it is soon apparent that ifKavanagh resembles Joyce in the priority of style,his own style itself is most reminiscent of19th-century writers like Melville and Hawthorne.Kavanagh's description of the land not onlyinjects the reader with a detailed feel for theNorth Atlantic, it also operates on a moresymbolic basis as a signifier of meaning.Extrapolating in a literary sense the Celticsuperstition of his outbound parish, the mostbanal aspects of the material world take on aspiritual meaning in this work...
...score did not remain 1-0 very long. AsTeller stood on first, Read caught a pitch belthigh with a swing that immediately left no doubtsas to where the ball would land. A few secondslater, the ball was lying behind the leftfieldfence, and Read was enjoying the first home runtrot of her career...
...case anyone thought this was a passing outburst, he swore never to give another speech without mentioning the Clinton investigations. The Christian conservatives "expect us to say that this kind of conduct is unacceptable," says Senator John Ashcroft, who is hoping his own courtship of that constituency will land him in the White House...
...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously Monday night to ask Middlesex County District Attorney Thomas F. Reilly to investigate alleged "land-flipping" schemes at two Cambridge apartment complexes...