Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most frightening part of Lou Ford is that he realizes how twisted he is. He cannot control his mind, but he's intelligent enough to hide himself from the public. What sets the book apart from others of its kind, is the contrast between the dialogue and the description of Lou's thoughts. He speaks normally and politely while his mind is racing ahead, repulsed and amused by the stupidity and petty concerns of the people around...
...managed pretty well to drift apart and do other projects and come back together and do an album of new pop songs," Byrne observes. "As long as I have an outlet for the other things I want to do, usually I am really happy to work within the band form." But Byrne's breakthrough with True Stories may tip the balance. He is reading books like Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle and The Epic of Gilgamesh, brainstorming on a new movie. In one way or another, every rock singer wants to be Elvis Presley. But here, all of a sudden...
...seconds apart...
Below the surface of the spectacle and festivity, apart from the thousands of visiting competitors, the Harvard oarsman has a special relationship with the Head of the Charles...
WHILE REAGAN AND Gorbachev almost agreed to eliminate nuclear arms in Iceland, they remained far apart on eliminating the nuclear threat. Any complete and carefully plotted agreement would have to address both problems; they are inextricably intertwined. Star Wars technology may never serve to defend the U.S. against an all-out nuclear war, but it seems realistic, perhaps likely, that some form of the space-deployed system could be a guarantee against minimal numbers of nuclear weapons held by the two superpowers or by any third party. Once nuclear weapons had been significantly reduced or eliminated--and elimination must...