Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also began his acquisition of firearms with a .38-cal. pistol, purchased in Lubbock, where a year later he bought two new .22 pistols at a pawnshop. When the 1980 summer session ended, Hinckley left Texas Tech for good to begin his last addled ramble around the country. His path seems one of accelerating aimlessness and fragmentation...
...album can be divided into three segments; the two sides and the included e.p. "Escapades." The first side provides a pop foundation for later innovation, opening with "Modern Lovers," in which Jeffreys frolicks along the well-travelled path of love's difficulty. At its close he lets the music usurp power from the words and merely chants "L-O-V-E-R-S" over and over, affirming the struggle to love in today's hard times without getting heavy-handed...
...Tell It on the Mountain (1952), there is a brief early scene in which Baldwin's 14-year-old black hero, John Grimes, takes a headlong run down a hill of melting snow: "At the bottom of the hill, where the ground abruptly leveled off onto a gravel path, he nearly knocked down an old white man with a white beard, who was walking very slowly and leaning on his cane. They both stopped, astonished, and looked at one another. John struggled to catch his breath and apologize, but the old man smiled. John smiled back...
Klaussen reveals his western spirit in describing his path to the 1977 Junior Nationals: "I hadn't raced in quite a while and just decided to race with some of my friends." He not only raced--he devastated the competition. As a result, he made the Rocky Mountain Ski Team...
...presents their moral writhings as both ad mirable (acts have consequences) and funny (things do simply happen). She also knows that people who get what they want will inevitably want something else: "The lovely thing about marriage is that life ambles on-as if life were some mean dering path lined with sturdy plane trees. A love affair is like a shot arrow. It gives life an intense direction, if only for an in stant." Colwin's witty, graceful stories convey both leisurely walks and sudden, unexpected sprints...