Word: detachedness
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But the whole book is a bit hard to believe. After all, how many murderesses are there in the northern suburbs of New York City? This overdrawing of Lesley's character is hard to manage at times, but Kelman's skill with dialogue and character development never makes it too...
Trouble is, they now have the vegetative fragrance of Eastern suburbs too. Unlike Arizona's native vegetation, which has sticky grains of pollen that are carried from plant to plant by birds, insects and bats, the imported plants produce the kind of pollen that is easily detached and carried...
HESS YNTEMA is back. Yntema, who in an astounding freshman year, defying the laws of age and experience, shattering the myths of Harvard impotence on a national scale, plunging, stroking, paddling through hour after hour, day after day of endless practices, traipsing in at early hours for morning work and...
Super-powerful laser beams have been used for more than a decade by eye surgeons to repair detached retinas. More recently, lasers have also been used to destroy certain skin cancers. But the Boston group is the first to use a laser for vocal-cord surgery. Dr. Geza J. Jako...
The clue to what has happened lies in the amusement parks. They are clean, bright, and-to some specialists-models of sensible urban design. But their rides and electronic puppet shows are plasticized, sanitized pseudo experiences, pedestrian reductions of fantasies and adventures. They boggle the mind without stimulating it. The...