Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honor of their ganja toppings, and two of the main sites of entertainment have long been shooting ranges (public and private) where you can lob hand grenades or fire away with M-16 assault rifles. To rent a 24-room guesthouse on a lake, with a view of distant temples, costs $425 a month...
...ordering a free booklet. "I kept seeing it and seeing it," Walters says. "And one day I just thought, O.K., let me check it out." She did so, she acknowledged later when quizzed about the book's impact on her, partly because she had been feeling a bit distant from God. And partly out of curiosity. "I was thinking, What's the gimmick? There's always a gimmick. And who is this foundation...
...being cruel and voyeuristic and of devouring our heroes, but this man was loved, genuinely, by people who didn't know him and weren't anxious to. It would have been heartbreaking to see him turn up on talk shows to explain himself. We wanted him to be distant. The press--even the ferocious iconoclasts of the tabloids--gave him room. He sowed his wild oats and went nightclubbing and hung out with inappropriate women, and nobody begrudged him this. Of course, he was lucky to live in New York City, whose citizens are proud of their ability to recognize...
Whether we're aware of it or not, this estrangement creates a void. "People have an inherent need to feel connected," says Joy Browne, a clinical psychologist and nationally syndicated talk-show host. "And they'll do it in whatever ways are easiest for them." When family members are distant, what could be easier than forming a connection to celebrities--especially glamorous, public-spirited ones like the Kennedys...
...present we see on the Hudson is a combination of the chastised, though often still abusive polluters and healthy signs of a waterway revived. Yet it is the past that most concerns Cronin and Kennedy--the past polluters, and the more distant past, in which they hope to see the future. The river is where they have found their home, and it has all the beauty and mystery of home...