However, since the last time I had worn my yoga pants, I had gone up two sizes: four months of sitting on my ass in my post-college-sweat pants-wearing-sloth-writer phase.
The tag is the pseudonym of the writer or artist, like Phase II, Lee 163D, Malta and Stay High.
Gass is usually, and not entirely accurately, aligned by critics with American postmodernism in its imperial phase: with writers, that is, such as Donald Barthelme, John Barth and Robert Coover.
Hewlett Packard's DVD100i, the company's new internal combination DVD+RW/CD-RW drive, takes DVD writers to a new phase of sophistication.
With the cancellation of Phase II, writers rushed to adapt its planned pilot episode, "In Thy Image", into a film script.
With the Roadhouse's destruction came the death of recurring character Ash, whom the writers had been phasing out during the season because they felt his "comical" and "wacky" personality was too unrealistic for the show.
Ask the cognoscenti to name the person who has best represented the game in every phase -- player, writer, teacher, editor, lawmaker, administrator, commentator and theorist -- and there would be a unanimous choice.
The publication of The Catcher in the Rye moved Salinger's career into a new phase, though the writer was not there to witness the sensation that accompanied it, preferring to spend the summer of 1951 in Britain so as to avoid the inconvenience of interviews, public appearances and reviews.
Now, however, Hollywood is going through a phase of adulating writers.
Where the auteur theory let us know that movie directors were artists as fully and identifiably as are writers, its latter-day decadent phase gives critics rope with which to tie filmmakers to their earlier work and reproach them for giving it the slip — as Allen has done.
By this point the book has moved on to the University of Michigan and a different evolutionary phase in the would-be writer's life: teaching.
