Word: detachedness
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The argument for student committee members is their supposed familiarity with undergraduate courses and undergraduates themselves will lead to a fair decision: a student judged by his peers. But the fact remains that, more likely than not, committee members consciously or unconsciously possess certain prejudices that detached officials would not...
While his friends play politics, Plarr for some reason plays the gigolo; he begins an affair with Fortnum's wife (Elpidia Carrillo), an unusual Indian girl who first caught his eye when he saw her working in the town brothel. The uncharacteristic obsession doesn't add much depth to Plarr...
The faces are different, though not very: the macho Texan on CBS, the winsome South Dakotan on NBC and the urbane Canadian on ABC are all white, lean and youthfully middleaged; all part their dark, wavy hair on the left. They do vary somewhat in manner: Dan Rather of CBS...
Taboos are made to be broken; one sees today why Pearlstein was interested in an artist so totally unlike himself, the Dadaist Francis Picabia, who conceived his work as a constant affront to received taste. Painting the studio nude, Pearlstein declared allegiances very different from those common in the New...
RECOVERING. Margaret Thatcher, 57, Britain's Iron Lady; from surgery on a partly detached retina in her right eye; in Windsor, England. The Prime Minister entered Princess Christian Hospital after unsuccessful laser treatment, left three days later pronouncing herself " 101% fit."