Word: well
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative music press, Death in Vegas is pretty much universally regarded as standard-bearers of cool. The goodwill is often not reciprocated. Notoriously irritated by continuously being pigeonholed as "electronica," Death in Vegas has largely given up reading any of its own press. This is probably just as well, since the band's scintillating performance at the Paradise proved the last thing it needs is being told what to sound like...
...Harvard fails to take advantage of Navy in categories such as this one, where it can easily gain the upper hand, it very well may be in for a long evening...
...goaltending tandem of senior J.R. Prestifilippo and junior Oliver Jonas will be in action as well. Jonas is the heavy favorite to start against RPI on Friday, and Prestifilippo will most likely see at least one game between the pipes. Prestifilippo boasts a 3-3 record in net, sporting a .924 save percentage and 2.24 GAA. Jonas made his only first goaltending appearance of the year with a 6-3 win over Vermont...
...discuss these structures, Scarry describes "the deep structure of perception" with the tools of philosophy and cognitive psychology, as well as literary criticism. The mechanisms of imagination are the focus of the book. Scarry classifies the actions of literature within the imagination of the individual reader, identifying five main devices: radiant ignition, rarity, dyadic addition and subtraction, stretching and floral supposition. Scarry adds to this already esoteric and complex classification three chapters on aspects of repicturing, addressing circles, skating and "quickening with flowers...
...prettiness. Images of beauty dominate the book, from simple flowers to the grace of Achilles' movements to the gossamer-like qualities of Emma Bovary's apron strings and wisps of hair blowing in the wind. Even violence in literature can be pretty, if the author uses imaginative devices well...