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What becomes increasingly frustrating about this is that Palahniuk uses these references as he builds images of scenes and characters. Understanding his references will surely enhance one’s reading of the story, but the amount of research left to the lay reader is simply too daunting for such a short book. One could imagine a future edition containing a compendium of glosses in the back...
...Kurdyla ’11, another officer who has danced with TAPS for three years, entered the room wearing a black sweatshirt with “TAPS” on the back in large white letters. But by the end of the first strenuous run-through, her sweatshirt lay strewn on the edge of the stage. At a quarter past 10, the room was already crackling with energy. Lowell Lecture Hall was finally awake...
...laden isle, the prey doubled back and around the fixture, searching frantically for a point of egress. The predator raced along an array of juices and milks, his menacing gait punctuated by the spoon he held clutched in his right hand. Ten feet, six feet, three feet lay between the pursued and a gruesome death by spoon...
...women. To be sure, Beauvoir unequivocally rejected the notion of equality in difference, which, in her mind, spelled inferiority. Yet, as per her claims, since the essence traditionally assigned to women was unacceptable and no new essence loomed on the horizon, women’s only chance at liberation lay in emulating men. Beauvoir’s woman, it seemed, was really just a man in drag—or, worse yet, a eunuch...
...improvised explosive devices - and public skepticism about the NATO mission. Operation Moshtarak, this spring's offensive led by U.S. troops, has helped buck up spirits but misgivings remain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied that the decision made at a January summit in London - to offer cash to insurgents to lay down arms - amounted to a bribe. But the idea is a hard sell to soldiers who saw colleagues killed providing security last year for presidential elections stained by fraud and intimidation. Another key task, training the Afghan army and police to take over from coalition forces - the only plausible exit...