Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saunders compared the discovery of life on Mars to the detection of planets around distant stars earlier this year. The two discoveries together, Saunders said, greatly increase the odds that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists...
Fullerton gets a lot right, or so it seems to a safely distant observer. He writes about pervasive dread, the fear of small-arms fire whipping through glassless windows, mortar rounds going off as one walks up a city street. After an attack by Serbs, Rosso feels a brief adrenaline high at being alive while others have died. Then shame. He recognizes this and sees that guilt may be what drives him to pursue the swaggering gang leader Luka, who poses as a resistance hero, and may, in some perverted way, actually...
...restaurant has been owned by Frank N. Cardullo since 1943. But the owner has lately been distant from the business end due to illness and age, according to the Globe...
...large, innocent eyes. But when she sings, she sounds twice as old, twice as wise as her years. In her promising debut album, Tidal, Apple's unassuming but versatile alto explores issues of abandonment and desire. In the Latin-tinged song The First Taste, her voice suggests the distant melancholy of soul singer Sade; in Sleep to Dream she assumes a smoldering anger that comes off like a muted Alanis Morissette; and in the wordy, moody Sullen Girl she evokes arty singer-pianist Tori Amos. But Apple, who plays the piano and writes her own songs, is more than...
...rolling some pretty high dice on the premise that Perot is sincere." Perot meanwhile was content to let Lamm have the stage to himself--at least for the moment. Perot spent last week on vacation with his family in Bermuda, where gambling is illegal and U.S. politics seems distant...