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...words still seep into the reader's marrow, 42 years after they were first ( published. "I am an invisible man," Ralph Ellison declared in the opening sentence of his only novel. "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." If they do register his presence, it is as "a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy...
...thing everyone agrees on in this debate is that rainwater and groundwater are inherently clean; the trouble usually comes when chemicals, sewage and the like seep into water sources. "Are we going to allow pollutants to get in and then attempt to remove them with engineering," asks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer with the N.R.D.C., "or is the most sensible way to stop the kind of development that is causing pollution?" The clean-it- up strategy might work for a while, but in the end, prevention makes much more sense...
...voice occasionally seems too thin. Julie Dixon seems less adept than the other two women in switching between being Marvin's high school sweetheart and being one of the chorus: while Loar and Kiley are distinctive as Marvin's wife and teacher and occasionally even let those roles seep into their chorus girl functions, it seems as though Dixon lets her chorus girl demeanor overtake her role as Marvin's high school sweetheart. Her voice is strong but her character colorless...
There is only one problem with this fabled success story: the rescuers may have arrived too late. No matter how quickly manufacturers halt the production of CFCs, billions of pounds of the chemicals already produced will continue to seep into the atmosphere and rise inexorably to attack the ozone layer. Worse, measurement after measurement since the mid-1980s has shown that ozone loss has been greater and more rapid than scientists predicted. Last month in Science magazine, researchers disclosed new satellite readings showing that in 1992 the average concentration of ozone in the upper atmosphere around the globe...
...produced, all of those. But, on current evidence, he did significantly more than run levels and read meters. Those albums share an occasional brotherhood of sound -- hard, lovely, otherworldly -- but more significant, they are each rounded with a dream, part funky and part fantastic, that makes them seep into the subconscious, then permeate the waking state. They are, in the title phrase from one of the splendid Dylan songs that Lanois produced, a Series of Dreams...