Word: detour
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...Australia's island state of Tasmania, and its eastern suburbs. Next morning, as some 30,000 suburbanites set out for work, they found that the former three-minute commute over the bridge had turned into a pilgrimage of an hour and a half at rush hours, requiring a detour of 33 miles...
Tezo said he hopes to divert most of the Memorial Drive traffic to Soldiers Field Drive on the Allston side of the Charles River by utilizing detour signs...
...suggests that people will shrug off the question of an author's skill if their voyeuristic urges are satisfied. A less frenetic life probably wouldn't have been placed on a par with Lang's writing. Lurie's memoir leads you to Lang's work by way of a detour that impinges on her privacy unnecessarily. It is an approach Lang denounces in one of her verse-plays...
...Bruce Springsteen imitation: if he wrote things like "It's Alright Ma" now they might sound like self-parody. He learned about tight lipped objectivity from country music, and if he can pull out of its constricting sentimentality and oversimplification without giving up its lack of pretention, the detour from John Wesely Harding on will have been worth it. "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" is just such an achievement and a promise, I hope, of a whole new kind of Dylan that we'll hear much more of in the future...
...bearish economy from the White House, Steve Ford, 18, plans to wrangle with more manageable stock on a Utah ranch. Postponing his freshman term at Duke University, the publicity-shy son of the President will seek out the private life of a ranch hand. Despite Ford's detour from Duke, his classmates at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., apparently have no doubts about his future. He and Coed Janice Hodges were voted "most likely to succeed" by then" fellow seniors, and posed for the appropriate yearbook picture, costumed as Bonnie and Clyde...