Word: distantly
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Throughout the whole process, we may take solace in the expectation that, at some point in the not-so-distant future, people will begin to listen when we speak—and when that moment arrives, we’ll be well prepared to seize...
...Chappell, that theory and others have coalesced into a conviction: Australia's national game is headed for strife. His reasoning goes like this. Life in the suburbs, in those precious hours between school and dinner, has changed. If they're not trekking home from distant schools, kids are more likely to be clutching a video-game controller than a bat. For many, their only experience of cricket is in its most structured forms, at the nets (where the coach may be barking at them) or in matches (where the pressure's on). For the gifted, more impediments lie ahead...
...pleasure of TV on DVD is getting to revisit another era--sometimes two eras at once. The Jetsons Season 1 (Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant future. Its ditzy slapstick is like the peanut-butter-and-jelly mix Goober Grape--if you didn't love it as a kid, you're not going to acquire the taste as an adult--and the pop-culture gags (like rock star Jet Screamer and his hit Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah) have not aged well. But the animation is still a classic...
...familiar one, populated by geezers: track-suited young men smoking skunk and watching telly, wandering from pub to kebab shop, filled with an anger as aimless as it is insistent. Yet Skinner's audience stretches far beyond those lads. American kids have taken him in like some exotic distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner and his higher-brow fans...
...once the tournaments started, a different story played out. The fall season flew by and Klein never found his stroke or a win. Junior Chris Wu emerged as the Crimson’s most consistent force, and the success of Klein’s junior spring seemed a distant memory...