Word: detachedness
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There was nothing in the instructions, I reiterated, that departed substantively from the positions prepared for him while we were in Europe. Reagan remained detached, friendly and still clearly a bit puzzled by my call. "That's all right, Al, don't worry," he said at last. I...
When former Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard, 27, began training for a comeback match with Kevin Howard in Worcester, Mass., boxing fans were both ecstatic and uneasy. Leonard had been forced into retirement in 1982 because of a detached left retina. Fearing that he might damage his sight during the...
Unfortunately, the self-satire becomes very tiresome. Self-conscious but not detached, Confidentially Yours neither works as frank satire, nor does it hold the suspense of a thriller. The bizarre jumbled reality of Vercel's world has more in common with that of a Thomas Pynchon novel than with the...
Even at the most pedestrian level, Reagan can be eerily detached, oblivious. He does not know where most of his closest advisers sit, even though some are only a few paces away from the Oval Office. He is vague about which underlings do what: an aide suggests that Reagan would...
It is hard to decide which is more horrible, the matter-of-factness of the Venetian lap dog, familiar from many a Carpaccio, licking up the satyr's blood, or the prim, detached attentiveness of Apollo as he peels the skin. Yet the whole unlikely scene is anchored by...