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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Narrators change voice almost arbitrarily as Budnitz jumps from Sashie to Ilana. Aside from the content of each narration, Budnitz makes little effort to create a different stylistic or narrative voice for each one. She intrepidly attempts to address the conflict of old values and new, western values through the...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: If I Told You Once, It Would Be Enough | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Many of Bourke's statements are extreme: "For men, combat was the male equivalent of childbirth ...the experience seemed to resemble spiritual enlightenment or sexual eroticism: indeed, slaughter could be likened to an orgasmic, charismatic experience." She supports her position with letters, memoirs, reports and diaries from Australian, American and...

Author: By Emily SUMMER Dill, | Title: Intimate But Incomplete Look at Killing | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

If it wasn't so funny, it might be tragic how millions of people around the globe are convinced that we are approaching the world's end. After all, the year 2000 can only mean the Apocalypse. Usually these types of ideas are relegated to specific facets of society: messianic...

Author: By John A. Burton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Fashion Dead? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

The history of fashion began in Paris and ended in the United States, though by the time the Americans had entered the scene, the party was mostly over. The "clothes horses" of the '80s "were known to blow $100,000 or more on a couture wardrobe on a single Paris...

Author: By John A. Burton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Fashion Dead? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

The situation grows only worse when the star cast members forget their lines: the wealthy start dressing down, as a sport. Has the image of Jackie Onassis (Our Lady of the Dark Sunglasses) been removed from the canonical cathedral of American fashion only to be permanently replaced with the image...

Author: By John A. Burton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Fashion Dead? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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