Word: detachment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laid out in this record of sociopathology, Hasselbach's conversion seems less a moral rebirth than simply the end of an unpleasant, unpromising stage of life. Part of this can be blamed on the book's remorselessly deadpan style. Part is owing to the narrative's unnerving emotional detachment, "an awful condition I still fight against," he admits. Understandably Herr Hasselbach has much from which to detach himself...
...Philanderer is more satisfying. Simon Bradbury is an overburdened lover who seeks to detach himself from one woman while securing himself to another. He makes an appealing Don Juan; short and tousled, he comes across as a sort of Machiavellian teddy bear...
...conundrums facing the voter become ever more complicated -- Whitewater, Bosnia, battling health plans -- and the average American apparently feels less and less compelled to understand them, the very last thing the country needs is a movie telling it that the answer is Engage Winning Smile and Detach Brain...
...fiction, Josephine Humphreys wrote once, is to look at it as the writer trying to answer a question. Considered in this way. Harry Kondoleon's new novel,Diary of a Lost Boy, makes quite clear from the get-go what its question will be. Can Hector Diaz, his narrator, detach himself from his impending death from AIDS so that he may live for now, so that the marital problems of his best friends, are as important to him as his own death? And on the heels of that, there is another question, one which we may pose: can we detach...
When Alaska Governor Walter Hickel was elected last November as the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, nobody expected him to do much to further its secessionist platform. Nobody, that is, except a vocal faction of the tiny fringe party. Angry that Hickel has not done enough to detach Alaska from the U.S., the group is mounting a campaign to have Hickel and Lieutenant Governor Jack Coghill recalled from office, charging that their nomination was illegal...