Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prozac Nation's press packet we encounter the following description of the author: "Witty, intelligent, and hip (nose ring, tatoo [sic]), Elizabeth Wurtzel is definitely not a Gen-X slacker." Beyond the silly assertion of nose rings and tattoos as indexes of hipness, this statement reveals what is meant as the book's selling point: that it's not just losers without jobs who are depressed, that the world is such a tough place that it would depress anyone, even a cool Harvard student. Hey, I buy it. I've been depressed too, and with many of the same symptoms...
...drive you crazy. Cool is what you need to survive here, and supercool is what you need to maintain a semblance of humanity. Andy, who insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical warden Norton (Bob Gunton, an oil slick in shoes) but also turn a tidy profit for him and his best friend, Red Redding...
...Ring, who has worked as a tax attorney, said she hopes to expand the number of courses on taxation offered by the Law School. Ring, who enjoys teaching and researching, says she is better suited to be a professor than a lawyer...
...interested in academics, you're interested in teaching." Ring said. "The business market is more client-oriented, while teaching allows you more flexibility to do your own research...
...Ring said she was happy to return to her alma mater to teach. "I enjoyed law school, am familiar with some of its faculty members and resources and the quality is really very impressive," she said...