Word: detour
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...Sherman Oaks Galleria, the Mecca of Valley Girls. If Andy Hardy's life was small town, Molly and her generation's is mall town: cruising the stores and the guys for a little post-innocent fun. Today's purchase is a portable tape player, a present for Mom. We detour to glom some sweaters, to pet the hamsters in the pet shop, to try on some beige Shiseido lipstick. Molly resists (and transcends) the Valley Girl stereotype, though she lives and speaks a variation of it. During a photo session she'll say, "This pose is, like, totally uncomfortable...
...over their territory. A mission by U.N. Ambassador Vernon Walters to line up support from the allies failed to change their minds. So instead of flying 1,600 nautical miles due southeast from Britain to their targets, the squadron would be forced to keep to international skies and detour 2,800 nautical miles around the Iberian peninsula...
...Charlotte, N.C., so the trip was to be a kind of homecoming. He had been obsessed with Sherman's legacy since coming North to school and was all set to film a serious documentary about the man whose infamy lives below the Mason-Dixon line. Taking a quick detour in New York to bivouac with his girlfriend, McElwee...
Celebrating the first construction-free Christmas in seven years, Harvard Square businesses have exchanged detour lights for the twinkling kind and immersed the square in silver tinsel, colored garlands, and holiday cheer...
...Thursday morning, Marilyn Klinghoffer, dazed and shocked, went ashore briefly to make a telephone call to her family in New York. The next day she and the other surviving members of the "beach people" were taken to Cairo to prepare for the long, sad flight home, with a detour to Italy, where she helped pick the four hijackers out of a lineup. On Saturday, after waiting two days for the Egyptian government to permit the Achille Lauro to leave Port Said, the ship's owners announced that the remainder of the eleven-day cruise had been canceled...