Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Down by a goal with less than a minute to play would have meant almost certain defeat for last year's men's ice hockey team. The opposition would get the empty net goal or the opposing goalie would some-how make the critical save, presuming the Crimson mounted any last minute pressure...
...this series act out, and mock, the social structures she depicts in her more straight-forward anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...
...dries up, the world is darkness." This is the philosophy impressed upon Okada by Mr. Honda, an elderly psychic with a weird fascination with phlegm. This analogy, intended to emphasize the nature of Okada's adventures in existential wackiness, is repeated throughout the novel ad nauseum. Although it's meant to serve to focus the book's many themes, it seems jarringly unoriginal in comparison with Murakami's cool, prose and inventive characters...
...complex. After all, I had not even heard of Kant, much less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more fascinating to create; that there is no limit to where theory can lead in the real world (I knew at least of Marx); but that...
...YORK: The FBI meant well. When assistant director James Kallstrom decided to tell victims' families he was closing his criminal investigation into the Flight 800 disaster for lack of evidence, says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, "he didn't want them to read it in the morning paper...