Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This Desire? grows a bit tired in its third quarter, which the structure of Harvey's 2,000-mile framework probably demands, but which nonetheless threatens the totality of the record's spell. "The River" in particular suffers from an inertia rare for Harvey. Its loping murmur is appropriate to the title image, and it's fun to hear her tinkering with brass, but a rather rote delivery ("And they came from the river/and they came to the road") and subjective vagueness (who is "they," and why does it become "we"?) make the song tiresome and opaque...
...ideas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "He is an intellecutal along with being a mystic, and since postmodernism challenges the harmony between faith and reason, he feels compelled to engage with it." Don't expect him to bump any French metatheorists off Comp Lit reading lists, but rare is the pontiff who displays an awareness of the prevailing wisdom in college-coffee-bar philosophy...
Vendler, who is currently teaching a course titled "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney," said of his work, "It confronts both personal and public affairs with rare honesty and a rare gift...
...Catholic Church may gently pooh-pooh her claims, but that hasn't stopped tens of thousands of pilgrims from flocking to the Georgia farm of Nancy Fowler -- after all, if the clergy are wrong, then staying away would mean missing a rare public message from the Virgin Mary. More than 100,000 people from all over the U.S. and Latin America are expected at Tuesday's event, in which Fowler plans to channel the words of the Virgin. The 47-year-old former nurse claims to have delivered annual messages from Mary for the past seven years, although...
Christina Crosby is twice blessed. She just may get to save one life in the course of giving birth to another. Her cousin Bobby Cooper, 33, learned last spring that he has a rare form of leukemia and might be a candidate for a stem-cell transplant. Duke is one of about a dozen hospitals and blood centers in the country that is collecting blood from umbilical cords and using the cells to treat cancer patients. So Christina has agreed to donate her cord blood, in hopes of raising the odds that her cousin will find a match when...