Word: abstractedness
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By performing this alchemy for four decades, Isaac Asimov has become an oracle, particularly in the world of science. These are, after all, the Years ^ When the Earth Talked Back, and long before the politicians, he was listening. Today readers search works like The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science...
The performances are all excellent. Din and Barber manage to be bored without being boring. They create a sweet, if abstracted love that still exists between Sammy and Rosie, despite their lukewarm marriage. "Sometimes I need a little passion," she explains. Without sarcasm, he smiles, "Don't let me stand...
Later, in the sweet last light of the afternoon, a lion prowls in lion- colored grasses and vanishes into the perfect camouflage -- setting off for the hunt, alert, indolent and somehow abstracted, as cats are. A rhinoceros disappears: the eye loses it among gray boulders and thorn trees. The rhino...
Banks' commitment to and reverence for the riddles and beauty in the Noh tradition is admirable; his work is often thought-provoking. But the staging at the Agassiz simply does not have the spiritual aura or nuanced acting to carry an audience through an hour of abstracted performance. Noh business...
None of this makes much practical sense, says Serpell, a research associate in animal behavior at the University of Cambridge. To appreciate his view of human-animal relations, it is necessary to face a tangle of mutual benefits and glaring paradoxes. Why, for example, should one little piggy be indulged...