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...even have eyes—apparently freaky little white slits are the most recent innovation in reptile assault.While my much tamer Turtles were wandering through the wood block world I had created them, my sister was usually busy with an itsy-bitsy scenario of her own. Polly Pocket consisted of finely painted people of plastic about a centimeter-high which you could make sit at chairs in their itty bitty little plastic house which would fold up into some sort of little girl shape and take up a wallet-sized amount of your living space. Sadly, since companies don?...
...diversity of reference is matched by a delightful variety of diction. The poem’s narrator babbles out initial exposition in a long stanza, then pauses, takes a breath, and recaps in a single line: “There is a note in my pocket.” In this and other poems, Robinson’s syntax is the best part of her style. The pacing of her language is exquisite. Lines that are formal and decorously slow contrast with punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several...
...balancing expenditures for men’s and women’s teams. But 41 schools, making up more than 34 percent of NCAA Division I-A athletic programs, reported at least one error in their 2003 and 2004 revenue and expense figures. The errors ranged in value from pocket change to a $34 million data-entry mistake by the University of Texas. However, Harvard’s reports have been error-free in previous years, according to director of communications for the Department of Harvard Athletics Chuck Sullivan. “We view [complying with EADA reporting procedure...
Upend a tourist and a camera is likely to fall out of his pocket, but few shutterbugs know how to put their camera to best use. Holiday photos are often more Addams Family than Ansel Adams and usually draw only polite murmurs from captive audiences. Yet an increasing number of photography breaks are helping amateur photographers tap their creative juices. Courses last from a weekend to a fortnight, in destinations from Bhutan, where students learn to capture the color of the Jambay Lhakhang Festival, to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They...
...Isis members who want to participate in the planned trip to New York City must pay $60 out-of-pocket, according to an Oct. 17 e-mail from Gordon...