Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pathetic, "I wanna be a star" fantasies of a member of the Spur Posse (the California teens who kept score of their sexual conquests), she goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have riven the sexes in the past three decades...
...novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping under boxes and generally surviving on schemes and scams...
...that "there's really no such thing as the present." This contradicts all serious philosophical analysis--both Eastern and Western. In reality there is nothing but the present as far as human experience is concerned. The present is the intersection of our consciousness with the flow of time. Both past and future exist only as mental constructs in present consciousness, the past as memory and the future as imagination. ROBERT M. TAYLOR, ASSOC. PROFESSOR Clinical Neurology Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio...
...great thinkers of our past and present have managed very well without the smart Doogie. Intelligence is nurtured through curiosity and creativity, not manipulation. Only shallow, insecure people will be interested in standing in line for the brain steroid. Smart genes? Non merci! MIGUEL ZAMARRIPA Montreal...