Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Shiva is Suri's own pachyderm of a child. It's a huge and lumbering novel that took seven years to write and leaves hardly any ground unfurrowed. But Meera's growth from narcissism to selflessness is too slow, and her core epiphany - what it means to be a parent - is a cliché. Suri's cyclorama of a newborn, metropolitan India, where streets are clogged not with carts but cars, can be engrossing. Too bad a prima donna stands center stage, blocking the view...
...absurd in such a catastrophe that the military junta in Burma has asked people to vote on a constitutional referendum called "discipline-flourishing democracy." It is equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. It's too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, Hong Kong...
...battle of the Texas fence moves from the newspapers and meeting halls into the courts, the point is clearly to slow things waaaaaay down, perhaps in hopes that fence fever will eventually subside...
...still haven't figured out the purpose or proper response to a Super Poke. Top of the list for a 34-44 year-old living in the suburbs with similar interests to me is the grown-up social network called gather.com, which is sort of like a slow-going, pared-down Facebook...
...beat up going in, but he stuck in it and got a point.”When all was said and done, the men’s co-captain finished eighth in the decathlon with a score of 6477.Despite getting off to a slow start in the first event—finishing 19th in the 100-meter dash—the San Diego native quickly made up for it with a downright win in the second event. Bounding 6.89 meters in the long jump, Lewis out-leapt the second-place finisher from UConn by more than a meter.Lewis next logged...