Word: detachment
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Loud Lucy has the talent to succeed, at least to some degree. Upbeat and fun to listen to, Breathe is a refreshing change from the deluge of angst-ridden music being produced these days. With a little work, Lane might detach himself from his influences and discover a completely original voice as the leader of a kinder, gentler grunge movement, and with luck the band will rise above the reputation of its predecessors. As a debut effort, Breathe demonstrates that Loud Lucy is at least a cut above the rest and promises that we can expect much more from them...
...while the First Lady will remain before our eyes for a bit longer, we might wish to detach ourselves from the opinion-imposing tendencies of the media and to formulate our own assessment of her. Since the investigation is incomplete and the facts of her actions unclear, it is premature to decide what she did do in the Whitewater case or how instrumental she actually was in convincing her husband to replace portions of "Republican" White House Staff. Instead, there are two main issues which are crucial to evaluating her fairly during the upcoming weeks in which she will...
...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...