Word: distant
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...played little role in the life of a Harvard undergraduate. His tenure has emphasized fund-raising as the main role of the President of the University, and although we are now beginning to reap the benefits of the expanded endowment, undergraduates may feel that he is at best a distant benefactor...
...then sets its male and female halves at one another's throats. Julia Roberts as Maggie Carpenter is everything a man can fear in a woman: pretty and sweet but a heartbreaker of the first order. Richard Gere plays her male alter ego the cynical, emotionally distant, and self-assured journalist Ike Graham. Had director Gary Marshall simply let these two archetypes battle it out on the farm fields of Maryland, all might have been well. But inevitably, Maggie and Ike leave their fairy tale roots behind and fall in love, at which point any energy the movie...
...hater. Because Lester is played by Kevin Spacey, we can see embers glowing behind his eyes even in the darkly comic early stages of the film when he has hit rock bottom: disdained by his harpy wife (Annette Bening), despised by his daughter (lovely, sad-faced Thora Birch) and distant from his own passions. The highlight of his day, Spacey tells us, is a quiet masturbation session in the shower. "It's all downhill from there." Spacey lets his mouth go limp to show us a broken soul, but the mugging face we see is always that of Kevin Spacey...
Department faculty said that Hoffman, who will arrive at Harvard from British Columbia this fall, fills a department gap with his specialty in the geology of the distant past...
...Hoffman is a field geologist who has studiedthe geology of the distant past when continentswere starting to form," Burden Professor ofMeteorology Brian F. Farrell said. "We havewonderful people [in the department] who do thebiology of this period and now Paul Hoffman addsanother dimension of what the earth was doing atthis time...