Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wooroloo would be an impressive debut coming from any new poet, but the book will be read by many out of plain curiosity: In what manner does a child of those parents write? And although Hughes denies being consciously influenced by the work of her mother and father, traces from both are easy to see. Her mother's violent, lacerating imagery appears in a poem called "Hysterectomy": "My disease will be stripped out/ Like the rotten lining of a leather coat." Plath's angry confessional tone is echoed in "Granny": "You loved me not, just saw/ A copy...
However, among the archived papers in Pusey Library, many of which are destined to collect dust and sit unperturbed in cabinets, there exist theses that challenge the traditional drudgery of topics. Interspersed amongst the hundreds of recent, less engaging synopses, a few unconventional and just plain bizarre titles emerge from the Hollis index. For instance, few economists have ever made a mental connection between the New York Stock Exchange and their bowls of soggy Fruit Loops. It was only a matter of course before new horizons in economics were explored and charted Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereal...
...Arnold Arboretum in Boston's Jamacia Plain neighborhood, autumn means 130 different kinds of maples, and almost as many different colors...
...computer users who succumb to the siren song of cyberspace, not just at home but during office hours. It is a compulsion so relatively new and scantily studied that doctors can't agree on what to call it--Internetomania, problematic use of the Internet, compulsive computer use and just plain computer addiction are a few monikers--let alone what causes it. A recent study by a group of psychiatrists at the University of Cincinnati suggests that people hooked on the Internet may also suffer from underlying but treatable illnesses such as manic depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse...
...people responsible for The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer--a moronic sitcom scheduled to make its debut on UPN this week unless the network experiences a late and totally unprecedented attack of good taste, common sense and plain old decency--describe it as a "high concept" period comedy. That must mean they were smoking some dynamite stuff when they dreamed...