Word: shelfful
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...author who won the affections of Lizzie Skurnick in her girlhood should count her- or himself lucky. Back then, Skurnick wept over books, pressed them on friends and mined them for educational material - cultural, social and sexual. Some tempting literary morsels drove her to actual theft. Now in Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading (Avon; 424 pages), Skurnick, 35, revisits her favorite young-adult novels to explore why they left such an impression on her and other women of her generation...
Calder’s sketches are simultaneously whimsical and technical. In a study for his work Circus, Calder draws a playful trapeze contraption, with his personal notes on how to create it: “Place lead weight on aluminum shelf, pull white thread, releasing weight, pulling phantom up on black thread.” Seeing the actual manifestation of Circus in the next room adds to the impact. The installation is an amalgamation of miniature circus figures: a lion in a wire cage and its long-limbed trainer in the circus ring, dangling trapeze figures, horses, elephants, camels...
Brandon K. B. Seah '11 said that “as a poor student,” he enjoyed going to the “Bargain Alcove,” a shelf where damaged books were sold for as little as $4 or $5. He said he would be disappointed if a restaurant or other commercial chain replaces the display room in the Holyoke Center...
...ideal images, though, may only make people more critical when real-life care doesn't measure up. CBS's fall debut Three Rivers, set at an lite transplant center, could underscore our luck-of-the-draw access to lifesaving resources. Or it could remind viewers of the top-shelf procedures that Obama's critics say will be threatened by "socialized" solutions...
...typical optician's, and they'll probably be too narrow or too wide. They might even pinch at the nose or behind the ears. That's because frames are traditionally built for a perfectly symmetrical head. And as everyone's ears, nose and cranium are uniquely shaped, off-the-shelf glasses fit few people perfectly...