Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the uppercrust jetsetters may have already left on an extended Thanksgiving hiatus, those of us stuck in Cambridge must endure yet another second-rate college weekend. The three days ahead, billed as Harvard's greatest gas, have yet to live up. Harvard-Yale weekend, in all her sexy splendor, is really just a big tease and everyone's her sucker...
...must-have for all Heaney fans, Heaney neophytes and poetry enthusiasts in general, the anthology offers word-for-word the richest visual splendor this side of Yeats. Herein are contained works of virility, gentility, raw passion, reserved harmony and the sheer ecstasy of reveling in language, rolling around in verbiage as only Seamus Heaney can do. The anthology contains works Heaney himself chose from among his rather extensive prosaic and prosodic output. The majority of the collection is made up of poems from all nine of Heaney's collections (spanning a thirty-year literary eternity from 1966's Death...
...that's just what may happen. Which is why Redford himself, in all his rumpled blue-eyed splendor, showed up in Madison, Wis., last week to stump for the candidate who most closely resembles The Candidate. "I don't do this very often," Redford told fellow party loyalists Wednesday night. "But I'm here because he believes in us." And because Feingold needs him desperately: the incumbent is currently lodged in a dead heat in his race against Republican Congressman Mark Neumann. The reason: Feingold not only limited his campaign spending and refused soft money; he also discouraged ads from...
...years, of course, everyone from insurance adjusters to credit-card companies has made money swapping consumer profiles like baseball cards. But the Web is bringing this great American pastime to new levels of invasive splendor. Ironically, one of the most attractive features of the Net--its ability to customize content instantly--morphs smoothly into one of its most sinister: the ability to monitor who you are and what you're doing online, even...
...create a year-long Khajuraho Millennium Festival; major events are tentatively planned for December. "There is no more magnificent sight than when the temples are lighted up at night and the dancers perform," says Bohnenblust invitingly. "It is as if you are transported back 1,000 years to the splendor and beauty of the Chandella kingdom...