Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stafford's facility finds its parallel in Storey's own gift for creating character and scene. Storey's style is unobtrusive; but the sense of reality which eludes Colin is all about him, in Storey's precise depiction of the fictional world he inhabits. The effects in Saville are rarely obvious; our passport into Colin's dilemma is understatement and the slow accumulation of detail. Storey uses strings of adjectives almost lovingly. Writing of Colin's mother, he says: "It was as if her life had flooded out, secretly, without their knowledge, and she some helpless agent, watching this dissolution...
Free Cars. Last week, after an initial period of stonewalling, GM yielded. It made an offer for which no auto executive could recall a parallel: it will take back any 1977 Olds, Buick or Pontiac equipped with a Chevy engine and give the buyer credit for the full sales price, minus 8? for each mile driven, on the purchase of a new car of the same make. Thus if the price of a Chevy-engined Olds less mileage deductions comes to, say, $7,000, the buyer can give it back and get a new $7,000 Olds (this time fitted...
...didn't know how to swim. I was very poor on the parallel bars, and my phys.-ed. class came at the damn wrong hour." The reluctant athlete is Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 74, whose aversion to compulsory exercise cost him a B.A. degree from Columbia even though he completed the rest of the curriculum in three years and ranked first in his class. Last week Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that...
...Crazy, Burger King Professor of Psychology and Parallel Parking, yesterday outlined two common situations that indicate a person is suffering from the newly discovered disease...
feather: the pre-requisite for recovery. Feathering is the wrist action that turns the blade parallel to the water so it can be moved in the recovery without touching any water. A recovery without a feather is like Chem 20 without pre-meds--impossible...