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Looking out the window of his office, Jewett's eyes must linger on the shanties built by anti-apartheid activists to protest the University's investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Jewett has handled the shanty dilemma with a certain moderation. But the shanties were built on more than the South Africa issue. Shanty dwellers have dubbed their ragged settlement the Open University. Jewett probably has made many students feel like they live in a more open university, but it's as if a door that was once shut has been opened only a few inches...
...which structure--patiently and usefully described by Structural Analysis--collapses, opens, is lost." His writing on reading is not even Barthes' beloved skidding-of-words effect but rather an effect of neglect, which frustrates reading, which hastens reading, which promotes erasure: bad faith. Read slowly, if you can. Linger over each "gustative sensation" and remember that "the submission of the gustative sensation to time permits it to develop somewhat in the manner of a narrative...
...shuttle Challenger, the trusted $1.2 billion workhorse on which they had been riding. Transfixed by the terrible sight of the explosion, Americans watched as it was replayed again and again. And yet again. Communal witnesses to tragedy, they were bound, mostly in silence, by a nightmarish image destined to linger in the nation's shared consciousness...
...atmospheric tapes of Indian court music, elaborate furniture, and the scent of a specially made Guerlain sandalwood to orchestrate the clothes. This kind of show-biz gilding draws the crowds, but the hues and density and drapings of the clothes, the impact of their easy and erotic majesty, will linger much longer than the perfume...
...those fluids has been documented. Doctors cannot prove that this will never happen, but nearly all known cases involve contact with the semen or blood of an AIDS victim. Quite direct contact too: the virus can live only a very short time outside the human body. It does not linger on doorknobs, clothing, food, dishes, glasses, utensils or toilet seats...