Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paragraphing, which appears to have been done by a food professor rather than a word professor, is a symptom of the utter absence of any organizing ideas beyond the examples themselves: Presentation here sadly mirrors preconception, both of them so careless as to be virtually absent. This might slip by with a D-, if the "author" has had bad lighting and good luck working...
...reveals the fact that the author invested in critical research more than he/she could spare from critical thinking. Especially in the first pages, the groundwork is laid (with obvious effort and some skill) for a major edifice that the paper never completes or inhabits. Gradually the paper begins to slip away from coherence as it tries to keep hold of lots of plays and critics, and so while it provides a suggestive survey of references to astronomy in Shakespeare, it never has time to pull them together into any sharp, integral analysis. This would probably get a B for effort...
LIFE IS A CABARET, death a blast, and apocalypse in Burgess' twenty-sixth novel or "entertainment," as he labels it. Not only is this "very deep" book a "bargain," it will "slip down as easily as a dozen oysters well-sharpened with lemon juice and tobacco," as the author declares in the jacket blurb. The book is really three stories in one. All concern the end of human history adapted for the modern TV viewer. At times The End of the World News is all that its author promises: at times it is merely quirky. But whatever its flaws, this...
...intends to fight against the tax increases that his own committee had just approved. Despite this rationale, it was apparent that Domenici had not only lost patience with the Administration, he had lost control of his committee. And the President had watched his influence over the Senate leadership slip badly once again...
...while I'm working on a film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves die, they hardly leave traces on me. I wonder why I don't suffer...