Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marriage is grinding," says Low, who has been married for 51 years. Marriage is now, as it has always been, hard work. Marriage is not a static event that can be measured, but a series of developments--those triumphs and setbacks--that make up life. "There is no obvious course to follow, so couples just have to keep working. A person sees dramatic changes during a marriage," Low says, "so a couple has to be committed to a way of life...
...dynamic effect is most obvious in Hata's ties to his long-dead comfort woman and his troublesome daughter. Both are objects of his care and devotion. Both cause him plenty of discomfort. How Hata handles his past and the constant tension between social acceptance and his chronic sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata...
...Nissara Horayangura, a senior in Eliot House, agrees that the hype caused her to buy the first book in the series. But as soon as she started reading, she was hooked. "It's a fantasy book, but it's suspenseful--it's a compulsive read. And it's not obvious, even to adults...
...elegance. American Beauty seems to be full of big, revolutionary ideas: that beauty is a whole other world behind images, that we create the rules we live by, that we have caged ourselves and can set ourselves free. But, at heart, these ideas are too obvious and too broad to make the film truly extraordinary, or truly necessary. Do we really need to be told that our suburban utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be, that New Age-y beauty can excuse just about anything...
...other hand, had been sleeping, drooling and dreaming my way to the last hurrah of summer vacation. The assortment of poles, hooks and old tennis shoes in the backseat heralded the obvious--we were going fishing. (Note to the Harvard community at-large: this was no "hug-a-tree," catch-and-release, greeting-card-commercial fishing jaunt. We were playing for keeps. And, yes, fishing is still a sport. And this is the Sports page...