Word: shoehorn
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...ballooning romantic waiting to get out. She is also a useful vehicle for a meditation on the possibilities of modern fiction. In unobtrusive layers of allusion, Atwood pays homage to earlier forms of the novel - the picaresque, the gothic romance, the Bildungsroman and Victorian saga. She tries to shoehorn her heroine's life into the coherent contours of those forms, but Joan Foster won't sit still for the fitting. Even the baggiest literary shapes require a greater certainty about life than heroine - or author - can muster. "It did make a mess," says Joan Foster as she sums...
...Fred Fox, former controller, were denied the chance to reply before the audit committee to a damaging report on the accounts payable department last winter. Roberts has claimed, and offered substantial supporting evidence in a statement November 2, that the report was grossly misleading. The report was used to shoehorn Roberts out of the department and undermine Fox's responsibilities, and led eventually to their resignations...
...hifsteck tartare as well: Moët et Chandon champagne and Coca-Cola are both on the menu. Empty seats are interdit. "We want Le Drugstore to be a meeting place,'' Caroline Solovei says, "and if there's space at a table, we'll shoehorn another couple-or a single-in. It's terribly easy to strike up a conversation.'' Caroline, who partially financed the venture with family funds, is an integral part of Le Drugstore's scene, providing still another attraction for customers...
...office. For a time in Spain's new and vigorous consumer society, the box office was busier than ever. With 20 million foreign tourists a year and television beaming corridas to as many as 15 million more people (instead of the mere 23,663 that can shoehorn into the Plaza Monumental), the bullfights have become a $25 million-a-year jackpot. In order to get a share of the pot, everyone concentrated on providing more fights. But a consumer society, like a matador's sword, is double-edged. More fights meant poorer fights. Aficionados hooted...
...ADDITION, the committee will have to decide how Houses should be staffed to keep up with the mountains of paper work they now face. John Finley has called himself a shoehorn, and while no other Master enters the business of writing recommendations with his verve, it is agreed that moving students smoothly into whatever they will do the year after they graduate is a part of the Houses...