Word: aloofness
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...timers canceled by NBC last year, are back and doing well on new networks. NBC executives have acknowledged that they probably moved too fast to junk aging shows and replace them with youth-oriented sitcoms. It is no accident that CBS, the one network that has stayed aloof from the youthquake, is No. 1 in the ratings, with "mature" shows like Murder, She Wrote, 60 Minutes and Evening Shade...
...question in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, Tennessee Williams' 1958 hothouse melodrama about prefrontal lobotomy, closet homosexuality and cannibalism. If the subject matter no longer shocks, the play itself can still thrill, given the right actors. In PBS's Great Performances presentation, it has them, mostly. Maggie Smith, as Sebastian's aloof, vindictive mother, and especially Natasha Richardson, as his possibly insane cousin, who was with him when he died, are superb adversaries, both of them informing Williams' lyrical dialogue with the rich emotional life it must have. Only Rob Lowe fails, more callow med student than the requisite mediating psychiatrist...
...Frances Westerman, a fashion model renowned in her youth as "the Ipana Girl." Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...
Freud believed that human beings are bisexual to begin with -- polymorphous perverse, as he put it -- but become heterosexual or homosexual because of their early experiences of love and sensation. Bisexual as well as gay men often report having distant, aloof fathers, leading to speculation that homosexual behavior is in some aspect a search for male nurturing that has become eroticized. Researcher John Money of Johns Hopkins University compares the acquisition of sexual orientation to learning to speak. "You did not have a native language on the day you were born," he explains. "But by the age of five...
...premium cigars have somehow remained aloof and lately have been staging a clandestine comeback. High-priced brands are selling at twice the levels they were 15 years ago. According to the Cigar Association of America, annual sales of cigars costing $1.25 or more have jumped from 50 million in 1974 to 100 million...