Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improved, the Norton Anthology of Pretentious Literature contains twice as much angst and symbolism as the previous edition. More than 1,000 pages of authors overreaching themselves in the quest for metaphysical absolutes: Beckett, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Doeblin, Ashbury, Joyce and many other favorites of the cafe society...
...case, Dewitt felt well-rested after the film and resumed his quest. After pedalling furiously for a few minutes, however, nature began to make its oldest demand on Dewitt, and he pulled over to search for a sanitary rest room. He found one in a theater, and old instincts remaining powerful, he sat down to watch Raising Arizona (Nickelodeon, Harvard Square). Dewitt had intended to visit that fine state on his search, but this film gave him cause to reconsider. Raising Arizona is the story of an incredibly stupid hoodlum (Nicholas Cage), who steals an infant from a local business...
...upon the solution. It's all in my head, Dewitt thought. The whole banana, from the Peace Decade to the Me Decade, is contained within my own existence. I am the Walt Whitman of my times, of all times. After years of fruitless searching, Dewitt had ended his quest and a warm feeling spread from the center of his body to his enhausted limbs. Yes, Dewitt...
Dave hit the brakes. Adam's head hit the headrest. Dave was unhappy with our attitude towards his quest. The quest, the quest, what was the quest? College degeneracy with a time warp twist, boy meets blind date, meets his past, meets his maker. No, not his maker, but a girl. A mystery girl, a girl who had for Dave the body, mind, and allure of a fourth grade flame, but the voice of a Smith coed. No, not coed, couldn't be a coed in an all girl's school...
...Harvard band took on more than 500 groups in the first annual "Energizer Rock-n-Roll Challenge" and this weekend ended their two-month quest to become the best college band on the East Coast...