Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millennium madness is upon us. With the countdown to the end of the world in full swing, cultural icons assault us with visions of the coming apocalypse, passing judgment on the last century of human progress and awaiting the Second Coming and the birth of the Antichrist. Codrescu's messiah, impressively, manages to surf the web, enjoy an orgasm, save humanity and open a restaurant all in time for Mardi Gras...
...stories of Felicity and Andrea unfold in separate chapters, and it takes over 260 pages for the two plot lines to finally come together. Only upon finally encountering Andrea and experiencing her first orgasm does self-awareness come. One thing that is clear throughout the book is that the two women need each other to be complete; they are two halves of a single entity, the messiah, come to save the world from the apocalypse...
...considering the federal statute for a minute, it is evident Daly's ideal classroom for "Introduction to Feminist Ethics" has not a legal leg to stand upon. Title IX was designed to promote gender equality in education; and while in 1972 the intention was to prevent discrimination against women, it by no means should be used to tip the scales in the other direction for no apparent reason. Perhaps if Boston College had a class entitled "Achieving Manhood: A Celebration of the Male Gender" that turned away female students because they were considered a corrupting influence on debate at large...
...This scenario is very real in such a complicated situation but unfortunately its importance is downplayed. The struggles are continually dissolved in a similar manner and without much angst. The personality of each character is no monotonously predictable and underdeveloped that the talents of Keaton and Skarritt are wasted upon them...
...legal system. Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side of Kafka. After all, McGough's client was, in Malcolm's evocative retelling, a veritable genius at the art of the con: layering stories upon stories and constantly filing equally believable, contradictory documents in legal offices across the country. Without Malcolm's intelligent and clear prose as a beacon, anyone would be lost trying to understand the intricate activities presented in the work: shuttling funds among bank accounts, filing counterfeit documents, forging signatures, inventing associates, and selling...