Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Price:$ 49). For some, the sweatshirt sells a dream, the closest they will ever get to living the Harvard experience. For others, it provides a sense of satisfaction, an opportunity to ostentatiously display their superiority. Either way, there's a lot of sweatshirt buying going on. Pointing to a pile near the front of the store, Sullivan explains, "With students, buying Harvard apparel is a tell-tale sign that you're a freshman. They buy everything, but like the tourists, they most often purchase these." Apparently, most consumers choose the Gear version over its Champion counterparts. "They're cheaper...
...though I dug up a pile of books to sift through, Widener doesn't provide much in the way of study space. The building doesn't even offer e-mail access. I could have situated myself at one of the carrels in the basement in dank air beneath leaky pipes, but I happened to find something better...
...favorites online. Imus' top pick was Freedomland by novelist Richard Price, who will take home $100,000. The other three winners (Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch, King of the World by David Remnick and My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki) were each awarded $50,000, a pile of loot five times as great as that pocketed by the winner of that other prize. Elitism costs...
...early-to-bed town of farmers was bug-eyed when the case broke, but few people in Champagne-Mouton knew Einhorn, a man who spoke little French and was seldom seen except to pick up his International Herald Tribune twice a week at the village newsstand. A pile of the papers ordered for him sits there now. At the nearby police station, the gendarme who knocked on Einhorn's door wonders if ever again he will see "FBI" on the same line as "Champagne-Mouton" in the papers. There hasn't been a single crime in the village since Einhorn...
...retells: "In the end, Dido/summoned her ladies in waiting/that they might see/the harsh destiny inscribed for her by the fates." The phrase "In the end" dooms the stanza to almost blase speech, which is almost bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms mixed with arch language and emplotment are characteristic of Gluck's voice, which, like too many contemporary authors, is often pretentiously down-to-earth...