Word: litting
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...mark the passing of years: a clunky effort to move the story forward. The absence of narrative punch is compounded by a paucity of interesting characters. Brick Lane seems to be populated entirely by clichés, one-dimensional people taken straight from a textbook of Indo-Anglian Lit. Nazneen is docile and, until the final few pages, dutiful, never speaking her mind, never standing up to her weakling of a husband. Chanu is the stereotypical first-generation Asian immigrant, holding on to fantasies of his native land's historic glories so he can feel superior to the people...
...pity the people who never saw the way his smile lit up a room even more. More than anything else, De Remer the sports fiend was about joy. Scary joy, perhaps—I can remember being accosted by Dave at the Crimson one night as he revealed, with the exultant urgency of the Archangel Gabriel, some quirk in the field hockey NCAA selection criteria that no one had ever noticed. Scary joy, sometimes, but always joy. The reporting feats were superhuman. The smile was simply super... human. Long live Dave...
...caves beckon. I only hope they’re well lit enough for us to read this yellowed clipping when we feel like looking back, when we want to remember that we did this with these guys...
Lawrence H. Summers rushed from meeting to meeting this year, his coterie of staffers struggling to keep up. More aides sweated away in the bowels of Mass. Hall, churning out briefing books by the ream. And these handlers and spokespeople lit up the University’s switchboards, following up on their boss’s latest whim...
Lynn Moulton said that although she had planned to keep her candles on only until Seth returned to the United States, she will keep hers in the windows until he comes home to Marblehead and see them lit...