Word: widely
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...only author who tried to surpass the encyclopedic scope of Ulysses was Joyce himself. He spent 17 years working on Finnegans Wake, a book intended to portray Dublin's sleeping life as thoroughly as Ulysses had explored the wide-awake city. This task, Joyce decided, required the invention of a new language that would mime the experience of dreaming. As excerpts from the new work, crammed with multilingual puns and Jabberwocky-like sentences, began appearing in print, even Joyce's champions expressed doubts. To Pound's complaint about obscurity, Joyce replied, "The action of my new work takes place...
...maybe Star Wars, in 1977. And no one is more aware than Spielberg of his own weaknesses. When I asked him once to make the case against his films, he grinned and started the list: "They say, 'Oh, he cuts too fast; his edits are too quick; he uses wide-angle lenses; he doesn't photograph women very well; he's tricky; he likes to dig a hole in the ground and put the camera in the hole and shoot up at people; he's too gimmicky; he's more in love with the camera than he is with...
...November 1997, students voted to return grapes to the dining halls. In 1992 students had demanded an HDS moratorium on the purchase of table grapes following a nation-wide boycott inspired by union leader Cesar Chavez...
...president of Raza, the history and literature concentrator says he was faced with a variety of issues ranging from increasing the group's campus-wide presence to taking a leadership role in the grape boycott controversy this past fall...
Many people would use the word "amazing" to describe Summer, whose wide-ranging interests led one of her friends to do a photographic project for the Visual and Environmental Studies department, with captions from her ownwriting about homes and her experiences as awrestler...