Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with her intelligent and creative designs. A case in point is this week's pull-out poster on John Glenn's space flight. "We wanted to do something informative and inspirational, especially for kids," she says. "I tried to capture Glenn's boyish excitement and implant that in the mind of some future astronaut--like my daughter...
...always understand what I learn from my interactions with the gay community, but I never close my mind. And listening to the different stories of family rejection or personal courage, I realized just what it takes for anybody who is different from you or me simply to find a place in this society, and to be treated with dignity and respect...
...plot is hardly action-packed or particularly original, but this doesn't mean that Evening is any less interesting to read. Minot saves us from boredom through her experimentation with words, which becomes the true focal point of the novel and admirably recreates Ann's sentiments and state of mind. At times, the boundaries of grammar dissolve into an endless stream of images that jump from fragments of one remembered moment or conversation to another. Smelling the balsam in a cushion someone gave her, for instance, sets off a chain of memory in which "The air seemed to fracture into...
...However, the writing again makes any interest vanish. Throughout the novel, the rules of algebra and syllogism appear, "If A=(?) and B=(?), then all one has to prove is (?)." The logic is straightforward, giving the reader time for their own conclusions: if chapter 1=(heavy blinking) and chapter 2=(mind shifting) then all one has to prove is (?). The blending of science and soul does not happen...
...Though those may be (hopefully) unapt words for Minnesotans anticipating Jesse "The Mind" Ventura's new term as governor of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes (and by the way, his real name is James Janos), it would seem to behoove them to get ready for something. Rough-and-tumble populism? Muscular, mustachioed libertarianism? Ross Perot in tights? Let's take a look at the Ventura canon...