Word: walking
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...shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them anything we want and then leave. For a moment you have available to you the whole universe of a person's life -- the pain and the suffering and the joy and the struggle. You can learn from it and take it with you, and then...
...Zapp's walk-on particularly illustrates, Lodge has more verve in academic settings than in his conscientiously worked-up factory scenes, and naturally so. He taught literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960 to 1987, and still holds an honorary chair there. But in either sphere his writing displays the wicked eye of a born satirist. Swallow's smile exposes teeth set at odd angles, "like tombstones in a neglected churchyard." A receptionist at Vic's factory strokes her platinum-blond hairdo "as if it were an ailing pet." This is a novel that lives...
That scene illustrates a more fundamental problem. Don Giovanni is at least partly a drama of class distinctions. That is why, for example, the cavalier can simply walk in on the wedding of the peasant Masetto and walk off with his bride Zerlina. When Don Giovanni is converted into an East Harlem hoodlum, the character no longer fits the plot, so Sellars blithely begins changing various details of the story...
Many Alaskans were outraged last week when a leaked Exxon memo suggested that the company might walk away from the job after work halts for the winter on Sept. 15. But in testimony before a House subcommittee, W.D. Stevens, president of Exxon's U.S. operations, said the company would comply with any "reasonable request" from the Coast Guard to resume the cleanup next spring...
With both Jaruzelski and Walesa, small remarks lodged in Bush's mind. "Walesa told me how he came home after work, and it was the one place where he could walk alone in his yard and be away from it all," recalled the President. "Jaruzelski talked about his daughter away at school and how he hoped she was not under pressure from her classmates for what he did. Those are the things we all are used to hearing and we all understand...