Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly sensitive on the subject of hyperhygienic Americans, having sprung from folks who were no strangers to the disinfectant bottle. In my mother's later years, she took some pride in visiting distant lands, and she particularly liked Australia. I hadn't thought Australia would hold any charms for her, but then I figured out that she had found it to be the farthest-away clean country...
...they? I know people, some of them holders of British passports, who insist that upper-class English are the filthiest people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs! These people are up here only eight weeks a term...
Persson's chilly delivery was emblematic of much of The Cardigans' music: poppy perfection, but seriously lacking in substance. It's nice to dance to, and especially to look at, but often emotionally distant. Kent, on the other hand, came off sounding like a brilliant, Nordic U2. Kent is a bunch to keep an eye on-maybe next time The Cardigans will be opening for them...
...also full of nineteenth and twentieth century references: when Data malfunctions, Captain Picard calls him back to reality by singing Gilbert and Sullivan. In the twenty-fourth century universe of Star Trek, such references might seem anachronistic, but they allow the audience to connect with the story, despite its distant-future setting...
...action, all the blood and gore of bombings is really just more material for the cameras to take in. It's the book as snuff film, real pain made distant by the act of filming. At one point, the apparent master terrorist-supermodel Bobby Hughes commands the killing, and then turns to his associate with the camcorder and says "Keep rolling...