Word: paragrapher
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...herself stranded outside Adams House without an ID card during intersession. When she discovers a staked body in the Adams Pool Theater, her vampire hunt commences. As Harvard buildings, majors, clubs, or concepts are mentioned in the story, they appear in bold and an explanation appears in a small paragraph in the margin...
...that begins at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and concludes in the aftermath of World War I, one that passes through Colorado, Venice, London, Vienna, Mexico, central Asia, the upper atmosphere and the fourth dimension, there are frequent stretches where a new plot seems to start every paragraph or two. The book opens with the Chums of Chance, a quarrelsome brotherhood of operatives that pops up throughout the novel, circumnavigating the globe in a giant dirigible, on missions ordered by mysterious higher authorities. But soon enough, Pynchon pursues new story lines involving Webb Traverse, an anarchist bomber...
...George Allen ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of modern elections. Webb was an upstart, party-switching late entry into the race; Allen was being crowned before the race had even begun. In the middle of a mandatory paragraph allowing that Allen might not win, Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot didn't - in April 2006 - think they were going out on much of a limb in calling Allen's victory a foregone conclusion: "not when the officeholder is so full of vitality as to have a legitimate shot at a presidential nomination two years down the road...
...definitely do. If I don't do the background work-I guess it's called pre-production in film-I am paralyzed. I have to assemble a lot of notes, some of them just scraps of paper, before I can even write that first paragraph...
...over rash action, and even a bit about current anti-American sentiment and the causes of terrorism—but, like far too many of his contemporaries, Cohen becomes bogged down by the process. If bureaucratic meetings warrant pages while Iran and North Korea are diffused in a single paragraph, then there is a serious problem with Cohen’s political priorities...