Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search of a secret code among the supernatural elect. They clash as men and then, having transcended mere morality through their discoveries, as ever more abstruse ! forms of energy. Like most fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive and the prose elegant in this joyride of a story...
...heart of Harvard's ban on co-ed rooming groups is an attitude that the college serves in loco parentus, a concept that works well in high school, but not in college. Harvard does not baby its students in any other way, leaving many to suffer in a sink-or-swim academic atmosphere. For Harvard to suddenly act parental when it comes to living conditions epitomizes hypocrisy. Harvard treats its students as adults when it comes to academic life--why not treat us as adults when it comes to private life...
...both sides, the cost of unification begins to sink in. -- In a TIME interview, Nelson Mandela talks about a negotiated future. -- From Tadzhikistan, an exclusive report on an Islam-tinged revolt...
Doesn't anyone have a kind word for Wall Street's gilded '80s? The new decade is only six weeks old, and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess. The melodramatic titles depict the American free-enterprise system as overrun by barbarians and liars, ambition and greed. And readers are lapping it all up. Just as they reveled in stories of the rich and famous during the past decade, today's inquiring minds are hungry for colorful tales about the pratfalls of the mighty...
When U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jay Stephens finally bagged Mayor Marion Barry, he did not sink back into a gray-flannel cocoon of "no comment." Once an anonymous deputy counsel in the Reagan White House whose only attempt at flash was his vanity license plate WH LAW, Stephens is now a rising Republican star. After numerous press interviews about Barry's arrest, he took to the Sunday TV circuit to explain why his sting operation was a triumph...