Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long slowly turns her lip ring and shakes her head in disbelief...
Though it may not have the simple ring of veritas, campaign leaders got the President's point: Harvard may be doing well--its budget is nearly balanced, the endowment just passed $11 billion and the campaign is 80 percent complete, with two years...
...heart of the book is the trial, a judicial three-ring circus featuring jury tampering, espionage, soaring oratory and federal meddling, all set against a background of corruption that makes the contemporary political scene seem virginal by comparison. The liveliest section describes the kidnapping of "Big Bill" Haywood and other union leaders by Pinkerton detective James McParland. Unable to extradite his prey legally from their Colorado headquarters, McParland abducted them, bundled them onto a train and ordered the tracks cleared all the way to Idaho. Such episodes of swashbuckling adventure bring out the crack reporter in Lukas as well...
...almost overwhelming. He is fond of verbal special effects, and his prose reads almost like a poet's at times Image follows metaphor, which follow conceit, which follows simile. There is proliferation of "like" and "seemed and imaginative figures of speech are densely crammed together. Sometime Golden's images ring false--raindrop that hit "like quail eggs," a sky "extravagant with stars," a retired geisha "more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirst...
Crash and a ring, and a flash and a ring...