Word: unraveling
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When Jane K. Rosegrant '85 was growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, she dreamed about traveling to exotic jungles to unravel the great mysteries of unknown animal and plant kingdoms...
Forced to unravel the web mobster, cultists, and horseracing in which he finds himself, Theron follows the trail to a bordello in New Hampshire and the dark offices of head Boston mobster Vincent Ciullo...
...possession. Both are more controlled and disciplined. Beside them, Stars and Bars is something of a hoot, based as much on the garbled America of TV as the real thing. Boyd is fine as long as he stays in New York City. In the South his story tends to unravel, and the picaresque incidents verge on cartoons. There are, however, some sharp observations of Dixie speech ("Each gnat she cooked me a fan dinner") and fauna ("a moth the size of a wren"), and an impudent send-up of atrium-style hotels, a high-rise in Atlanta where the guests...
...lanky and light-skinned, quite pretty in a nervous sort of way. I came out of college equipped with an unfocused snobbery, vague literary aspirations and a lively appetite for white boys." The one description seems at first to sum up Sarah's college experience, but Lee continues to unravel her personality with a sensitivity that makes Sarah more sympathetic than we might expect...
...multistate task force is currently trying to unravel the complicated scheme. As for Rogers, two weeks ago, he entered California's Lompoc prison camp to begin serving a six-month sentence on a separate charge of bankruptcy fraud...