The cutback is one of the sport's three fundamental turns, along with the bottom turn and top turn. It's the purest power move in the book, Australian surf journalist Nick Carroll wrote in 2000.
It is almost impossible to attend a meeting, visit someone at home, or even call upon the sisters at the monastery and not be offered slivovic. Morning, noon, or night … it doesn't matter. When my meeting with the pcelari ended, Mesam presented me with a gift. It was a bottle of slivovic.
One of Ford's best effects in unchronological narration comes from having Dowell tell the same story twice in order 'to render those superimposed emotions'.
The venerable Lucretia Mott, who was its Chairmaness declared that it had fulfilled its mission, that it “had seen the salvation of the Lord,” and like the aged “Simeon” was ready to depart.
