Word: neglected
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...often impenetrable idiolect. As we read, Barthes tells us that "reading is the permanent hemorrhage by 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...
When Walter and Anna (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal...
...rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description and bears comparison to one of Lloyd's immortally orchestrated and madly logical...
...course. It can pass well-intentioned resolutions blandly calling for diplomacy and peace. Or it can simply do nothing. But a realistic assessment of the threat posed by the Sandinistas to the region, as well as to the U.S. itself, clearly exposes the risks of a policy of benign neglect...
...about its committment to the discipline, it should consider giving the committee an additional tenured position and give special consideration to women's studies specialists when tenuring within other departments. Above all, the creation of a women's studies concentration should not be an excuse for other departments to neglect integrating women's issues into their curricula...