Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable set of aging characters. The first nine stories, though unrelated, are alike in tone. They are peopled by educated characters who have led interesting, often highly fulfilling professional lives as successful musicians, actresses, writers. Now older, they reflect back on those lives and compare them to their present unsatisfying personal situations...
...remarkable set of aging characters. The first nine stories, though unrelated, are alike in tone. They are peopled by educated characters who have led interesting, often highly fulfilling professional lives as successful musicians, actresses, writers. Now older, they reflect back on those lives and compare them to their present unsatisfying personal situations...
...with a force that has grown and become refined since the fine Heartsongs collection. She has developed herself as a chronicler of memory, and her protagonists in these stories are more psychologically compelling than even the strongest characters in Heartsongs. The past bleeds silently and met seamlessly into the present, or snaps back like a whip, and what tragic consequences may come from present actions seem to grow organically and necessarily from the past: a man freezes to death, defeated by a curse and by the unforgiving wind; a boy gives his life to the empty and futile myth...
...with a force that has grown and become refined since the fine Heartsongs collection. She has developed herself as a chronicler of memory, and her protagonists in these stories are more psychologically compelling than even the strongest characters in Heartsongs. The past bleeds silently and met seamlessly into the present, or snaps back like a whip, and what tragic consequences may come from present actions seem to grow organically and necessarily from the past: a man freezes to death, defeated by a curse and by the unforgiving wind; a boy gives his life to the empty and futile myth...
Fisher found that the number of occurrences of men chewing with their mouths open decreased from an average of 4.333 to 3.250 when women were present. Good behavior, such as keeping hands in lap increased in the presence of females, from an average of 0.333 to 1.188 occurrences in five minutes...