Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...domestic melodrama in which well-intentioned people cause calamities; the climactic suicide of a dreamy adolescent girl is generally staged with perverse beauty, as a sentimental symbol of how adult reality crushes freedom of spirit. Pintilie, who brings an Eastern European's Marxist sensibility, has exposed a vein of social criticism about the corrosive effects of wealth and envy...
Balson, who described "Ramsey" as a novel about growing up in Los Angeles, says, "My book is in the vein of Catcher in the Rye and Portrait of the Artist as A Young Men. Stylistically, I'm inspired by Joyce and Faulkner. They are my heroes...
...done some career advising and I will function in that particular vein," says another advisor, Salvatore J. Iannucci, the Chief Executive Officer of Aaron Spelling Productions...
...conference that had been dominated by Michigan and Ohio State forever has opened up and seen the rise of Pete Rozelle style parity and, in the same Rozellian vein, the Big 10 has discovered the forward pass...
...black professional, the black entreprenerial vanguard have simply not taken responsibility for their own. There is not at this crucial stage in the development of the black community even a single thoughtful and deeply honest publication among black intellectuals--there is hardly a forum of any sort in this vein--willing to engage in those necessary acts of painful self-criticism without which neither intellectual clarity about the black social condition nor concrete understanding of how to alter it will be attained...