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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 219–230.
Published: 01 November 2009
... revelatory picture emerges when we view the two in juxtaposition. For the embrace of purebred dogs coincided with the scorning of immigrants, and the desire for these dogs among upper and middle classes grew as anxiety increased over a loss of power and status in an altered society symbolized...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 3.
Published: 01 November 2022
... into crabgrass > our tongues catch our upper braces > there s no room for wisdom teeth in our jaws > we scream vowels & drool > Mom comes sprinting down the hill in > the mirror > we see twin veins sewn under one another s tongues > Mom tailgates in the left lane > our whol bdies r tngues > we writhe > try...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 48–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
... my shoulders after every yawn. I’m not worried. He’s the kind of man who gets ideas but is largely unable to follow through on those ideas. He shoves his hands in his jeans. This is something he does often, so often there are shiny silver marks on the upper thighs of his jeans where his fin...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 9.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for ham sandwiches. Laundry hangs from upper lips, safety pins and promise. I ll wake up as I ve laid down, childless. Hand rakes through my hair like an open field. minnesota review 99 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9992831 © 2022 Ashleigh A. Allen 9 ...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 5–6.
Published: 01 November 2009
... will be too tight across your gut and upper arms anyway. Don’t even consider going for a drink with Danny. His 401(k) is decimated and you know you’d have to pick up the tab. Your 401(k) is decimated, too, but at least you have an income at the moment (as long as you clear your clutter from...
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the minnesota review (2005) 2005 (63-64): 195–202.
Published: 01 May 2005
... freshman composition sequence for a year while revising the curriculum to either replace it with an optional upper division course or increase the credit units for the first two quarters. The outsourcing was then going to start winter quarter, for the students who failed to pass the fall quarter...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 141–151.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs?” (287). Endore goes to the very emotional investment of his readers in the werewolf- monster genre itself, writing...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 171–176.
Published: 01 May 2023
... State University, and his other work is featured or forthcoming in Prime Number Magazine, the Masters Review, and Bridge Eight. Tom also served in the Florida Army National Guard. He lives in Tallahassee and is married to the poet Olivia M. Sokolowski. Sara Solberg is a writer from Michigan s Upper...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (65-66): 149–154.
Published: 01 November 2006
... professors enjoy the privilege of teaching only upper-level and graduate courses; that graduate assistants teach nearly all introductory courses in language and literature; and that collectivization is the rational response to the exploitation of a labor pool. These are not cultural differences...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (95): 47–52.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and slurped them up, like shucked oysters. She wiped purple jelly from her upper lip with a paper napkin. 52 the minnesota review The doctors know what they re doing, Cathy said, checking her watch, checking her watch against the clock on the wall behind her. They ve done this hundreds of times. Thousands. I...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 81–88.
Published: 01 November 2009
... you have one yet? I’ll give you a name.” The vet, like most good doctors, was on the Upper East Side. Jean made an appointment for the next week. That night, feeling better about the snake, Jean crashed. She slept so deeply that she didn’t hear the phone at five in the morning. When...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 129–135.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and that it has practical managerial virtues. In the best- case scenario, departments and their individual faculty organize the work of teaching, without having to wait for a lumbering upper bureaucracy. If curricular planning and the coordination of research became far more of a centralized, hierarchical...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 60–66.
Published: 01 May 2008
... any of his students. His upper body is swimming inside his size nineteen, white button- down shirt. Looking up, he can see that his entire class is glaring back at him in a frozen stare, jaws hanging in shock. He awakens twisted in the bed sheets. Immediately he feels his arms...
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the minnesota review (2010) 2010 (75): 51–58.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and this newer home on the Upper East Side. By today, the tenth day, the note told him to mill about, to go out and to come back in, to think and speak and cry to someone else. All this in the seventh line, in the long indent, in the name’s successful struggle to remain straight, and in the short...
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the minnesota review (2005) 2005 (63-64): 61–80.
Published: 01 May 2005
... general the minnesota review education and upper-division courses, talk about working class literature and literature about work. We have a number of history courses that study the local community. They finally got a labor history graduate course— our history department used to be very...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 37–45.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... That night, I dreamed about sultry-eyed Jenna Dawes. In the dream, I was a math teacher cleaning off my desk after a school day. She opened the classroom door and walked in wearing nothing but a white bra and panties. “I see you shooting basketballs every day,” she said, squeezing my upper arm...
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the minnesota review (2010) 2010 (75): 59–68.
Published: 01 November 2010
... quo. He describes the Ladies’ Home Journal as “a monthly tribute to marriage, motherhood, and housewifery in white, middle- and upper-class homes” (117). He reports that fiction accounted for 85 percent of public library circulation and that it, too, promoted...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 83–93.
Published: 01 November 2019
... letter describes the experience of a traveler who accidentally witnesses a raucous meeting of the Waltham Blacks during which the traveler was presented . . . with a humorous kind of Ceremony to a Man more disguised than the Rest who sat at the upper End of the Table, telling [the traveler] . . . he...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (97): 30–39.
Published: 01 November 2021
... begin to lick them incessantly, causing a thick, itchy, rosy line to appear above my upper lip, a line of purple peach fuzz. No other chapstick or brand helped when my lips chapped. It had to be Balmex, the vanilla flavor, an opaque yellow balm in a 1½-inch-long tube with a r eassuring image of a v...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (65-66): 75–82.
Published: 01 November 2006
... in a different position with respect to class oppression than to racial and sexual discrimination, he has observed the enormity of class difference firsthand and actively sought tools for understanding it since, at the age of fifteen, he moved with his family to a part of upper...