Word: averted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boyhood, argue that boys are in crisis from emotional undernourishment. Though our culture views them as testosterone-driven demons, boys are much more fragile than many adults realize. And that's about all they agree on; where they clash is on the origin of the difficulties and how to avert them...
People generally want to avert their eyes from the sight of those dealing with overwhelming physical challenges. But CHRISTOPHER REEVE won't let us. Reeve's book Still Me lodges itself at No. 1 on various best-seller lists. No wonder. By the day of his book-launch party, Reeve had already appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman (who, oddly, did not use the opportunity for a guest-specific Top 10 list), the Today show, Oprah, 20/20 and Larry King Live and done countless print interviews. Writing the book, Reeve says, "was one of the highlights...
...Without Europe?s support on immediate, tough action against India, the best efforts of the U.S. are unlikely to avert another seismic bang -- leaving Washington to ponder how a region tapped for another photogenic presidential excursion later this year suddenly turned into a nuclear hot zone...
Walsh got a less-than-par start from one of hisaces in Saturday's nightcap, and was forced torely on a last-ditch rally in the sixth to avert asweep. Jamieson, who had tossed seven andtwo-thirds heroic innings against Columbia inCambridge last weekend, never found his grooveagainst the Bulldog lineup...
Best Foreign Picture, that is. Whereupon, to extend the analogy between Character and Titanic, as the director accepted his Oscar, his ego succumbed to an attack of St. Vitus' dance, causing some among us to avert embarrassed eyes. But it's worthwhile, in the case of Dutch director Mike van Diem, to refocus them on his work, which is a true epic--long, dark, complex, enigmatic and curiously riveting...