Word: detachedness
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The primary battle lasted more than a year. The candidates spent nearly $4 million to project their views of themselves, each other and the world. At the end of that time, it was hard to tell manufactured image from reality. A year later, when the bumper stickers are peeling off...
He brings to show business, customarily a craft of schmaltz and charm, one of the keenest analytic minds around. Sondheim was the kind of boy whose favorite school subject is Latin, and he grew into the sort of man who browses through dictionaries for entertainment. His love of concocting puzzles...
The woman, who is not a student, became highly disruptive after she was denied permission to speak with Bok, said Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson. Johnson said his group detached officers to arrest the woman after a Mass Hall administrator called for help.
SOME self-proclaimed baseball afficionados (the effete ones in my book) say that one should appreciate the game for good play and beauty in the abstract--and the rooting might even get in the way of a higher, detached understanding. Bullbleep. Ya gotta root. (I cannot, for example, believe that...
SPECIAL mention should go to Set Designer Regan McClellan. Unlike the usually lavish Mainstage sets, the set for Lie has an spare understatement that is wholly appropriate. The stage's vast desolation, with dividing lines down the middle, is just the right setting for the isolated, detached characters.