Word: shadower
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...startled public to a long-simmering drama featuring charges and countercharges of everything from sacrilege to bullying to murder, most of it allegedly done by holy men. The shocking litany amounts to a regular seminar in what Helen Tworkov, editor of the American Buddhist journal Tricycle, wearily terms "the shadow side of Tibet...
...been such a dominating presence that opposing teams have tried to neutralize him by having a defensemen shadow him throughout the game and deny him the ball...
Tomorrow, Harvard has the chance to erase the memory of last years humiliating loss to the Big Green and add the final touch to what has been a terrific season. All year, the Crimson played in the shadow of early losses to Duke and Hobart, but it never lost its faith...
With his voluminous poetry reckoned in, Hugo's effect on French literature exceeded anything short of the Bible itself. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gautier all stood in his shadow, along with foreigners like Dostoyevsky and Conrad. In the words of English scholar Graham Robb, whose brilliant new biography, Victor Hugo (Norton; 682 pages; $39.95), does for this sublime windbag what George Painter did for Proust 30 years ago, Hugo was "a one-man education system through which every writer had to pass...The story of Hugo's influence after death is the story of a river after it reaches...
...girl dressed in a frumpy sweatshirt and jeans. She's frantically banging on the door, trying to get someone's attention. She thanks me with so much gratitude that I know she's been waiting for some time. I look back at the window and see the shadow of the staff worker, still within the office. Maybe he just didn...