Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon last week, seven of the eight Widener terminals were occupied by graduate students getting their first crack at Harvard's on-line catalog. They said that HOLLIS seemed like a good idea. "It's much faster than before," said a graduate student in East Asian Languages who refused to give his name. "But I'm not sure I can use it. There must be a lot of exciting things you can do with...
...dream. She needs a son, so he'll be one, a cross between Dennis the Menace and Oedipus. He will play on her longing and guilt, in baby talk that moves her: "You never cuddled me, did you? . . . And you never let me follow your finger along the line of nice big $ words ((like)) 'Once upon a time.' " He will relive what was never his, "my American childhood," by tossing tantrums like a spoiled four-year-old. He will learn that the idyll of perpetual childhood is a peculiarly American dream: "Being a kid again is as good an occupation...
Seoul is, of course, a city perpetually on alert, many of whose citizens believe themselves at war. Antitank walls line the highway leading out of town to the DMZ, just 35 miles away, and air-raid drills bring the city to a halt on the 15th of each month. Soldiers are everywhere (museums even offer specially priced "soldier" tickets). Yet for all that, the city is much calmer than the choreographed, telegenic demonstrations suggest. For most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman...
...dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have crossed dominance: the preferred eye and hand are on opposite sides. Confusing? Not really. A pitcher needs to be able to sight along the line of a pitch. On the other hand, a lefthanded batter with, say, a batting average of .300 probably has a sharp right eye turned toward the pitcher and a well-tuned left hand to guide his swing. The researchers advise young athletes to take their cue from their dominant...
...Polly Alter used to like men, but she didn't trust them anymore, or have very much to do with them." Is Polly anyone we know? Of course she is. This first line of Alison Lurie's eighth novel may not rank with "Call me Ishmael," but it fits an age in which communication between the sexes sometimes seems to be conducted solely through therapists and lawyers. Thus Lurie, whose The War Between the Tates (1974) was a notably witty account of sexual skirmishing, labels her new book as the trendiest of problem novels...