Word: paragraphed
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...unspecific pronoun" represents a gap between the rules of grammar and the rules of society that students and academics constantly face. Any student who has written a paper in college has found himself--I mean, herself--I mean, themselves--oh, forget it; I'm moving on to the next paragraph...
...slew of them for magazines, and having been interviewed almost as much himself since his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was published in 1984, McInerney knows how generic the whole experience is. The main character in Model Behavior just hits a button on his keypad to produce a paragraph about an actor living in Montana (CTRL, Mont) or a starlet claiming she still thinks of herself as ugly (SHIFT, What, me sexy?) for the magazine profiles he writes. But McInerney's characters haven't grown up since Bright Lights: instead of going dancing at the Studio 54 successor Limelight...
McPhee, whom this reviewer has known for 40 years, is the most methodical of intuitive writers, or the most intuitive of methodicals. Intuition tells him to bang a gong from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners...
...quite a strong statement by the Court. The employer can't escape liability with just a paragraph in the employee manual," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "But the employee still has to prove that her career was threatened in some way, and Jones wasn't able to do that...
...first paragraph of the advisory simply stated, "In the early morning hours of Monday, May 18, a Currier student was assaulted in her room by an unknown assailant...