Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of her novel lies in a funny, extraordinary other world where men, hit by lightning, start to read everything backward and women swallow silver dust to cure themselves of hallucinations (it doesn't work). The everyday magic of this invisible realm is given fiber by the hard facts of natural history she incorporates, and the sheer extravagance of Cuban thinking ("Dreams about carne asada can mean only one thing," a radio hostess opines: "that the caller should devote her life to God"). Writing in a voice not quite like any other, Garcia takes exuberant flight without ever taking leave...
...bestows, since it always ends up in the wrong hands, i.e., those with a hunger for such power. At its most eloquent, Mason & Dixon becomes an epic of loss. The conquering of the wilderness means "reducing Possibilities to Simplicities that serve the ends of Governments,--winning away from the realm of the Sacred, its Borderlands one by one, and assuming them unto the bare mortal World that is our home, and our Despair...
...unique pattern. This month he and Pentaplex Ltd., which markets his design, filed suit against Kimberly-Clark Ltd. for copyright infringement. "When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited ...to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a Knight of the Realm without his permission," a Pentaplex representative stated, "then a last stand must be taken." A spokesman at the company's U.S. headquarters noted that after its 1995 merger with Scott Paper, the license for Kleenex bathroom tissue was sold to another manufacturer. The case isn't going down the toilet...
...with a 500-sq.-ft. base. It does not call itself a religion, but Trinity has certainly mapped out the hereafter. Communicating through the movement's founder, Norma Milanovich, the space being Kuthumi says that the Templar will transform Earth into a star and transport us to the divine realm of the Fifth Dimension...
...find it highly ironic that MaryBeth A. Muchmore summed up her review of the play The Day of the Dogs (Arts, April 10) by accusing it of "veer[ing] a little too far into the realm of absurdity." Had the reviewer been familiar with Martin Esslin's The Theater of the Absurd, an indespensible text for anyone studying 20th century theater, she would have known that elements of the play with which she found fault are, point for point, markers of absurd theatre...