Word: disaffectedness
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So it's official--the album was designed to respond to trends, not to create them. That popularity begets popularity shouldn't be a surprise, I suppose, except for the fact that popularity is so often unpopular. Still, one would think there would be room for a disaffected minority.
Each novel, in its style, captures the style of its generation, and can be read by bemused elders as a shrewd caricature of disaffected post-childhood wanderers desperate to avoid adulthood. Garland's characters are young European and American backpackers who circle like dead leaves in an eddy through the...
In an affluent district that has returned its Republican representative to Washington in the past eight elections, first-time candidate Torf (he had no opponent in the primary) is a long shot. He hopes to attract those disaffected by the realities of the antigovernment movement, advocating educational and training programs...
With or without Perot, a third party will never have it easy. The Republicans and Democrats are well entrenched, and only an overpowering reason would cause voters to reject them. So far they haven't found one, and G.O.P. pollster Ed Goeas doubts they will. "Independent voters are disaffected, and...
Amy, the disaffected child (Anna Paquin), is moping around the farm, mourning her dead mother. Tom, Amy's distracted dad (Jeff Daniels), is in his workshop creating really strange metal sculptures--basically, if guiltily, ignoring his daughter. In the barn, though, a gaggle of orphaned goslings is beginning to hatch...