Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remained mostly in the background. The clear intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking as an example in miniature of historical white exploitation of black Africa. Kingsolver, 43, lived in the Congo in the early '60s, and fondly remembers the people and the terrain. But this is a novel, not travel writing salted with guilt. The author's strong female characterizations carry a story that moves through its first half like a river in flood...
...stew which results form mixing these ingredients together is dynamic, sometimes astonishingly so. But the Harvard terrain can be very difficult to navigate, especially for those students who find themselves here without guidelines for the first time in their life, or who lack the great self-confidence of so many of their peers...
What might have happened is a fascinating guess. It seems doubtful that even such sturdy characters as Shackleton and his crew could have made a transpolar crossing. The terrain was unknown and unforgiving, no one on board knew much about dogsledding, and the half-trained dogs were sick because worm medicine had been left behind...
...after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...
...suburban Boone County is running as fast as he can away from Clinton, even though Lucas' own polls show that over the past few months, he has steadily gained on his opponent, Republican state senator Gex Williams, and now enjoys a five-point lead. Lucas is on tough terrain for a Democrat: the district voted 49% to 41% for Bob Dole in the 1996 election, and it has been represented in Congress by beloved Republican Jim Bunning, who this year announced his own bid for the Senate...