Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hearsts visit Patty three or four times a week, and friends say their encounters-strained and formal at first-have warmed considerably. Patty's lawyers report she was scared and aloof when she arrived at San Mateo County jail, 25 miles from the courthouse, but Sheriff John McDonald Jr. says she fell quickly into the prison's routine. "Her attitude hasn't changed," says McDonald. "She's still calm, cool and collected." She has also been suffering from menstrual problems, eats only lightly, and has dropped from...
...caught her February 5-7 at the tail end of a series of Tharp profiles in The New York Times Magazine and The Village Voice. As a result, Tharp's style is now publicly well-defined: snatches of pop dance and everyday gesture emerging from tightly-paced choreography; cool, aloof dancers tossing off precise wiggles, shimmies and shrugs. It adds up to a complex choreographic vision...
...seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist. "It is strange," Joyce wrote Nora in 1904, "from what muddy pools the angels call forth a spirit of beauty." Ulysses and Finnegans Wake were to prove him prophetic...
...young. She was a woman. Bennington did not look deeper than that. It should have. She's an elitist." Literature Teacher Camille Paglia accused Parker of "disgusting manipulation. She has created a feeling of queasiness that was never here before." Furthermore, some complained that she was remote and aloof from faculty and students...
Certain Scrooges will always insist on staying aloof from all the holiday cheer. They will turn up their noses at the crass commercialism of it all, or they'll point an accusing finger at the jump in the suicide rate during the Christmas season. But perhaps the most pervasive, if not the most pernicious, effect of Christmas is the identity crisis it can cause among kids who are not white or Anglo-Saxon or Protestant. Little black kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live...