Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coalition's most immediate goal is changing University policy concerning sexual assault on campus. Members said they want to end what they call the campus-wide silence on the subject of sexual violence...
...sounds confusing, it is. Not many novels open with two people with the same name, as Wide Open does with two Ronnies: the Ronny without the big toes and Nathan's brother. Even fewer rename a main character some way into the text, as happens when Nathan's brother is rechristened Jim by the other Ronny. Clarification is not high on the novel's priorities, either...
...characters choose to retreat from society to hide their lurid pasts, Barker opts for layer upon layer of density. Perhaps some things are not meant to be understood. Like Luke's bizarre join-the-dots form of pornography, the strength lies in what is actually missing--to be wide open is to be exposed, to be "wide open as a can of worms." Revelation, for the reader as much as the characters, is best in limited quantities...
...engaging characters and the refreshing lines of description and dialogue of Wide Open have garnered high praise since its release in the United Kingdom about six months ago; this Stateside release is an excellent trans-Atlantic introduction to the ferocious originality of Nicola Barker's work. It is a novel into which, like Ronny listening to a story of Jim's we are "slowly, safely, surely, soundly" hooked...
...Baby begins with the backward strings of "Right Here, Right Now," an ethereal track marked by oscillation between synthetic string arrangements and a soothing, choir-like vocal sample to sharp beats and cyber sounds. The song serves as an excellent demonstration of Fatboy Slim's integration of a wide and diverse variety of musical genres into his mixes, instead of relying solely on any particular sound. Fatboy keeps the beats interesting and unconventional at any tempo and consistently resists the urge to fall into static patterns in a musical genre that is notorious for relentless repetition...