Word: marly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morris stages an uncritical celebration: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gets six paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is concerned that the violence might mar next month's parliamentary elections, urged his countrymen last week to "use your heads" and ignore "rumormongers who would destabilize Egypt." Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior contended that the puzzling crosses were formed by dye stains in the synthetic fabrics used in Muslim dress...
...Beanpot consolation) 13 Harvard 8, Colgate 3 18-3 14 Harvard 3, Cornell 0 19-3 20 Harvard 4, RPI 1 20-3 21 Harvard 3, Vermont 0 21-3 27 Harvard 5, Clarkson 0 22-3 28 St. Lawrence 4, Harvard 3 (OT) 22-4 Mar. 6 Harvard 6, Brown 2 23-4 7 Harvard 5, Brown 2 24-4 (ECAC Quarterfinals) 13 Harvard 4, RPI 1 25-4 (ECAC Semifinals) 14 Harvard 6, St. Lawrence 3 26-4 (ECAC Championship) 20 Harvard 7, Bowling Green 1 27-4 21 Harvard 3, Bowling Green 0 28-4
...these very apercus are what mar the text. In adding to Defoe's repertory company, Coetzee has introduced urgencies that are neither fresh nor illumined, only brilliantly disguised. Flashing back and forward, scattering allusions, adopting a series of poses and styles, the author is less reminiscent of a prior novelist than of contemporary street mimes who build hints until the audience shouts in recognition. Readers of this achingly symbolic retelling are likely to give a similar response. But will they applaud the author -- or will they really be congratulating themselves...
...have gone to west Beirut's Mar Elias camp, controlled by Druse militiamen, who have stayed neutral in the fighting around Bourj el-Barajneh and the nearby Chatilla camp...