Word: realm
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...BLIND ASSASSIN: Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life - and some mysterious deaths - she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...
Then there are times when the digital divide looks unfathomably deep. The phrase has become mired in the blurry realm of cliche, applied variously to women, the disabled, seniors, ethnic minorities, rural and inner-city populations. But the underlying threat is real. Technology has moved so fast that a new upper class--composed largely of the same white, affluent, college-educated males that made up the old upper class--has spurted ahead of the rest of society, mostly because they have the time and money necessary to acquire and understand the tools of the digital revolution...
...intelligent and deeply personal lyrics have sparkled against her exquisite voice and her acoustic guitar. She has explored relationships with people and with the world over her first three albums. Now, with her latest tour and disc (The Green World), Dar has taken herself one step further: into the realm of the folk-pop crossover...
...realm of the Ad Board, a sphere never explicitly defined to Harvard undergraduates, should be within the realm of academics and related concerns. This is where a band of College administrators and Faculty should remain. The Ad Board should have nothing even tangentially relating to the domain of a criminal activity as serious, consequential and destructive as rape. In fact, because it is not a recognized legal body, the Ad Board does not have access to results of hospital-administered rape tests. Ad Board investigations are thus a drawn-out series of statements between the accused rapist and the victim...
...once again in the realm of the supernatural here. Price knows a lot more about it than he lets on. More about it, indeed, than the responsible reviewer, protecting the reader from foreknowledge of Unbreakable's well-disguised surprise ending, dares to tell. Suffice it to say that Price's belief in the power of "comix" to symbolize the endless battle between good and evil betokens a more intimate understanding of that topic than he cares to admit...