Word: particularity
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...decidedly politically incorrect style drew peals of laughter from the audience. As a preface to his reading from his 2002 collection of prose poems “Dust and Conscience” and his recently completed manuscript “Four Letter Words,” Truong Tran placed particular emphasis on the political nature of writing. “I wrote the second collection as a response to our wonderful Laura Bush who cancelled the poetry summit in 2003 saying that poetry and politics have nothing to do with one another,” he said. If homogenizing connotations...
...bomb scares and other threats closed schools in seven states. As the news cycle surrendered to round-the-clock coverage, finding meaning in the mayhem was a performance art: Dr. Phil was warning about the dangers of a violent popular culture before anyone knew which culture had produced this particular killer. Bill O'Reilly whacked "America haters" and knee-jerk gun controllers before declaring his support for more "sensible" gun-control laws than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which allowed a suicidal kid with a history of mental illness to get multiple weapons without any trouble...
When crafting a feature about his 1990 stint on ‘The Price Is Right,’ for example, I screened old video footage and asked one of Donato’s players to describe a particular screen shot...
...took the game 20-10 as the Crimson (2-10, 0-4 Ivy) lost its seventh straight. While Dartmouth’s offense is undoubtedly potent—it has averaged nearly 15 points per game over the past six contests—one factor in particular made a decisive difference in its most recent win : winning draws. The Big Green dominated the draws and ended up controlling the ball for the majority of the first half. “Draw control was the big difference in the game,” sophomore attack Kaitlin Martin said...
...other Republicans were not so charitable. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a key Bush loyalist who early today said that Gonzales's essential virtue "will show through," was tough on the Attorney General. Sessions took particular issue with Gonzales' statement that he could not remember the specifics of a November 27 meeting of top Justice Department officials to discuss the dismissals, only 10 days before they were carried out. During the lunch break, Sessions told TIME, "I'm troubled, very troubled that the Attorney General just flatly stated he had no recollections of the meeting in November...