Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pancake shows us the sufferings of his characters unflinchingly: the stories are frank, sometimes brutal. In "The Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills...
MOST BOOK JACKETS are meaningless eye catchers, but the designer of Madeleine L 'Engle's latest novel exhibits a starting perspicacity. Behind plain white lettering. A Severed Wasp is covered with dense tapestry like patterns of violet, lavender and deeper purples, the type of ribbed stripes that appear inside the covers of very old books. Only the volume's square boundaries give any shape to the intricate interplay of threads and colors...
Galardi's basic burger is thin-he gets ten patties per pound of meat-and comes wrapped in plain paper. The price goes up to as much as 95? for a double cheeseburger. Says Customer Tim Hebert, 17, a high school student: "It's incredibly average, but it's cheap...
...while the Committee's memorandum allays those fears, it simply maintains the status quo, proposing no great expansion at the Jamaica Plain facility. Only five new courses will be added to the current...
Other problems with expansion are the "availability of faculty members interested in teaching in these modes" and the Jamaica Plain site, as well as the cost, the report says...