Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times, Tisdale seems right on target. Her critique of "weeding," the practice of throwing away little-used books to conserve shelf space, is both moving and intuitive. Most often, though, Tisdale sounds downright mean-spirited. She tosses off jibes at roller-blading kids without a trace of irony or understanding while blasting electronic catalogs in what appear to be nostalgic reveries...
Recall the Flavr Savr, a tomato bioengineered to ripen on the vine and last months on the shelf. It might have been a huge moneymaker if only the thing had tasted like a tomato. Its maker, Calgene Inc., traded above $20 a share in 1992, but the stock subsequently rotted to $5, and Monsanto Co. has offered to buy the company for $7.25 a share...
Everything I am studying seems important, and every week the assigned books jump off the shelf in their brilliance and importance. The past two weeks alone encompassed Virgil's Aeneid, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk and Frank Norris' The Octopus. I am even looking forward to reviewing for my oral exam this May, because the process will give me the chance to re-read and reconsider great books...
Here's a strange fable--if it has talking animals, it must be a fable--that clanks awkwardly in its mechanics but leaves a melancholy stillness as it is put back on the shelf. Kirsten Bakis' supposition in Lives of the Monster Dogs (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 291 pages; $23) is that in the year 2008, a tribe of large dogs, surgically and genetically altered, with prosthetic hands and voice boxes and with the intelligence of humans, arrives in Manhattan. The dogs walk erect, using canes, and wear costumes patterned after military uniforms and ball gowns of 19th century Prussia...
...easy as going into a store and picking up an item off a shelf," said Rudd W. Coffey '97, former co-chair of the Campus Life Committee. "We are competing against colleges and arenas across the country...