Word: shallowing
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Goldman's arch, stinging overview echos that bitchy comment. All too often, he relies on shallow dazzle and backup effects. His subject is a compelling case history, an exploited talent with a wasted, truncated life. But that is not enough for Goldman. The biographer insists that each kink in his subject's psyche represents a tremor in the nation's collective unconscious. When Goldman finishes his juicy recounting of Elvis Presley's life, however, the mystery of the King's fascination remains. For that, fans and readers should rejoice. As Elvis always insisted...
...year-old philosopher sharply criticized teaching methods at most universities, saying students are "talked at" in lectures and large classes and assigned "shallow, unprovocative books." Teachers should engage their students in active discussions of the ideas and philosophies of great works, he added...
Closets as shallow as medicine chests. Walls like shirt cardboards, walls that will not hold the nail when we move in and try to hang the family pictures...
...crew is wary of modern navigational instruments, preferring to depend on triangles, protractors and geometry lessons of old. The hydraulic steering mechanism, for example, allows Cavalier to be guided by automatic pilot, but no one trusts it for work hi shallow waters. Says Seaman Aaron Hairston, 33: "If you had an accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats...
More threatening than the shallow Arctic waters is the ice; it can punch holes in sturdy tugs and treat barges like pincushions. The passing floes can make a landsman as giddy as a child finding shapes hi clouds. He sees ironing boards and beached seaplanes and dolphin tails and animals that guard the doors of ancient Egyptian tombs. But to the Cavalier's crew, there is nothing fanciful about these floating hulks. The ice is fragile from the summer, and if the tug sails too close, its wake can make the bergs crack or explode. Depending on the density...