Word: telegraphic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seminar's snub of Jesus' apocalyptic, eschatological side. Most important, he concurs that it is a mistake to "carve up" the New Testament and analyze the pieces separately. Wright believes the Gospels are more supportive than subversive of one another: "If I read about the Prime Minister in the Telegraph, the Times, the Mail and the Guardian, there are four different views, but that doesn't mean I don't have [a pretty good idea] of what the Prime Minister...
Questioning these two gets Lituma nowhere. Adriana's replies are particularly obscure and Delphic: "All these hills are full of enemies. They live inside. Day and night they weave their evil schemes," she tells him. After listening to such divinations, Lituma mordantly imagines the report he might telegraph back to his headquarters about the missing men: "Sacrificed in manner as yet undetermined to placate evil spirits of Andes, stop. Written in lines of hand, witness claims. Case closed, stop...
...show's gems are those instances of extreme behavior which powerfully telegraph Kron's peculiarities, such as that memorable workday when she decides to come out at work via an inter-office memo. Or better yet, when she gets sucked into buying a truckload of Prescriptives cosmetics by a very heavily made-up saleswoman who has what Kron calls the Shroud of Turin effect going on--then pays for the cosmetics with the office's petty cash supply. An expensive and traumatic four-hour lunch break just to find out she's an autumn...
STEPHEN HAWKING, proving (once more) that a debilitating motor neuron disease is no match for sheer will, plans to marry again, according to the London Telegraph. His bride will be his erstwhile nurse--once married to the designer of his voice synthesizer. Hawking divorced his first wife in 1991 after 26 years of marriage...
...when the opportunity to work as a senior adviser to first-years presented itself, Jewett says he decided to put International Telephone and Telegraph's offer on hold...