Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chronological span of Gorey's work runs from the hornbook-inspired Eclectic Abecedarium through the Jazz Age-naughtiness of The Curious Sofa but will budge no further. An enthusiasm for the obsolete furnishes his rooms with daguerreotypes, gramophones and bell-pulls, and his diction matches the furniture-- his characters say things like "Mercy!" and "Drat!." Gorey's nonsense verse is the direct descendant of Edward Lear's and Lewis Carroll's, and, as it would be impossible to transplant Lear or Carroll to another era, Gorey inherits their Victorian world along with their spirit...
...surprise was waiting inside the Paradise. It began with Styles of Beyond, an underground hip-hop group from L.A. While DJ Cheapshot of SOB (an unfortunate self-inflicted acronym) laid down some tight beats, the audience seemed to be waiting for more radio-friendly action. Which is not to say that Styles of Beyond is that far from national exposure--MCs Ryu and Tak Bir's smooth rapping styles foretell a possible MTV explosion some time in the future. "Spies Like Us" was a standout song; at times the other songs blurred into each other for lack of decipherable choruses...
First, they are one Abercrombie & Fitch store too late for the former argument. As for the latter--can the existence of a few subdued, subterranean chain restaurants in Loker Commons really do more harm to the University's image than, say, the recent Harvard Institute for International Development scandal in Russia, or perhaps last spring's New York Times article depicting undergraduates as unhappy, desk-bound losers? It would seem to me nothing could enhance Harvard's image more than a bold headline proclaiming, "Harvard Students Happy!" So why such resistance...
...Mark and Ray themselves say the provisions under which they were prosecuted are far too vague and far too draconian for them to be given a fair trial," she said...
...form is going to be a dying art form if experimentation doesn't continue. Some of the devices I've used are actually not new but they had been forgotten. For example, the technique of dialogue, of a dialogue chapter, is a Victorian form where two erudite men, say, would have a long conversation that would be written out in chapter form. There's a dialogue that Oscar Wilde wrote, for example, which discusses socialism. But the discussion is conveniently couched as two very articulate men talking. And it's a fascinating form which has fallen into disuse...