Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bullock make a cute, if not slightly mismatched, couple. Their natural chemistry may even leave some wishing for a few more catastrophes. However, while watching Forces of Nature, one has to question the odds of a plane crash, hailstorm, fire and hurricane all happening to two people within the span of 48 hours. Not to mention being wrongfully picked up by the police as accessories to the burglary of a car and for possession of narcotics...
...this Wols? Six grimacing self-portraits, the first images one encounters in the Busch-Reisinger Museum's exhibit of his photographs, prevent an immediate response. The portraits, cropped like busts from the neck up, span the varieties of human response, from the mirthful to the apathetic to the terrifying but never the genuine. This shock at lack of sentimentality is re-experienced in the 57 photographs displayed. In his most successful prints, he subverts the circumstantial reality of his subject and creates a new context without annihilating its essence...
...readers with a short attention span, Chaudhuri offers paragraph-long summaries of each novel at the beginning of the text. Completely eliminating the entertainment value of the plot, this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...last eight games without the services of captain Paul Fisher, who went down with mononucleosis while averaging 10.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Only the intervention of senior Bill Ewing--who rounded out the season playing the best basketball of his career, including three double-doubles over a span of six games--salvaged the frontcourt...
...last eight games without the services of captain Paul Fisher, who went down with mononucleosis while averaging 10.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Only the intervention of senior Bill Ewing--who rounded out the season playing the best basketball of his career, including three double-doubles over a span of six games--salvaged the frontcourt...