Word: paragraphed
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Shades of Frank Sinatra. The opening paragraph of your article sounded like the 1940s accounts of Sinatra's appearance at the Paramount Theater in New York City, when he was mobbed by bobby-soxers. I don't know about Martin's music (I'm a Mozartian), but it's nice for a change to see a pop singer who doesn't look as if he came out of a garbage dump. Good luck to him! RAY DAMSKEY Calistoga, Calif...
More problematic was the Institute's missionstatement. Negotiators had met repeatedly formonths to sketch a one-paragraph, two-sentencemission statement for the new Radcliffe Institute...
There's no doubt that when you read reviews of this new Midsummer adaptation you will see the words "sparkling adaptation" glinting in every paragraph. In this case, however, take the cliche literally...
...Perhaps the sudden appearance of RSIs last year could perhaps be explained in terms of this sudden explosion in time spent at the computer. Today there seems to be an almost inverse relationship between age and computer literacy. My father takes about an hour to type out a paragraph-long email, I can with difficulty design a spreadsheet, my twelve-year-old cousin has his own website. In fact, recent articles in technology journals like Wired and PCWeek worry that "Nintendo thumb" in children might prove an early harbinger of future RSI troubles. Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer...
Then he rereads the entire paragraph, which gives one chills, partly for Darwin's understatement. What the author deemed "interesting to contemplate" was nothing less than the world's biological structure, which he (and others) had discovered, and which now, at the end of his monumental study, he quietly celebrated in sublime summation. The "tangled bank" he had initially attributed to an unnamed power, but in the third and subsequent editions, he included God in the evolutionary process. The book now ends on this glorious sentence, over which Raven exults: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with...