Word: detachedness
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A middle-aged man from another kibbutz near the border was just killed by Palestinian mortar fire. Here in Hanita, the bomb shelters have been packed most nights during the past week; the youngest children are always the first to be rushed to the shelters when an attack is expected...
Female viewers may respond with anything from detached amusement to fury, because the film is utterly and blissfully sexist. If a defense must be advanced for this undiplomatic realism, it is that Claude is as helpless as a blown seed. This prank of nature is the comedy's single...
Slade's protagonist is Scottie Templeton (Jack Lemmon '47), a divorced, once-promising writer who has squandered his talents on second-rate movies and television--and has had a damn good time in the process. Only his priggish 20-year-old son Jud seems to despise him; they haven't...
Who invented the detached collar?
Hannah Lord Montague made the first detached collar in 1825 in Troy, N.Y., after she became tired of washing her husband's shirts just because the collar was dirty. With a scissors, she snipped off the collar and the result was a new look in menswear of the day.