Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: New books that belong on the shelf of classics about surviving degradation with dignity and even humor...
...That paper on Dickens's use of irony is due in but scant hours, yet Bleak House is sitting on the shelf untouched. Some students, facing this predicament, might throw their arms up in despair. Those in the know, however, don't sweat it--they simply reach for the trusty black and yellow stripes...
Second, reality hits, and it goes a little something like this. June I: You don't want to read Samuel Se sewall's diary; you want to go to the beach. You go to work. June 2: Sewall sits on the shelf, the beach is a bike-ride away, and you go to work. The cycle continues...
That means the bound volume students need for papers may be displaced from a shelf in order to accommodate a for-profit corporation using students to do research for its clients, other for-profit corporations...
...movies after her starring role in 1964's Funny Girl. In 1985 she scored an enormous success with The Broadway Album, a collection of songs by such composers as Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Her non-Broadway hits have never been very credible, and they've proved to have the shelf life of sugary foodstuffs on convenience-store shelves. It's hard to listen to You Don't Bring Me Flowers, her 1977 duet with Neil Diamond, without thinking of eight-track tapes and the Carter Administration...