Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abstract of the recipient's independent research was published in the 1991 Society for Neuroscience Abstracts...
...Brown University this year, the conflict was about something less abstract: money...
...have resolved to limit serious drugs to weekends and saint's days. But when Jeff, Russell's star first novelist, arrives at a bash with a 19-year-old model and a heroin habit, eyebrows are raised. Middle age is still a laughable rumor, but in a distant and abstract way, doom is understood to exist...
...home as she does on a podium: there is no difference between the parent talking to her child, the spokeswoman jousting with the press, the Palestinian arguing for the cause. She has a rare ability to translate her people's longings into homely domestic terms, to turn an abstract dissertation on rights into a mother's plea for her children. That is real; that is how she sees it. "I do it," she says flatly, "for my daughters...
...himself on his jeans-and- sneakers wardrobe, but he drives around town in a white bulletproof Rolls- Royce. He does his business out of his apartment, a triplex penthouse previously owned by Cher in a trendy part of New York's East Village. He drinks Cristal champagne and buys abstract...