Word: distantly
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...distant future, Harvard students will encounter a new, but altogether familiar minimart on the corner of John F. Kennedy and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...scene is irresistible: smiling children in colorful clothes running and playing while behind them, green rice paddies stretch to distant mountains illuminated by a splash of sunshine off the gilded dome of a Buddhist temple. It is hard to imagine how this scene could be the latest weapon of a despotic military regime which continues to rule the Southeast Asian nation of Burma. But the scene is as dangerous as it is irresistible...
...federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 4,000 of the 11,000 radio stations in the U.S. have changed hands, many of them gobbled up by small chains or media conglomerates. Result: a rapid dwindling of local programming in favor of standardized music, talk and news, often packaged in distant corporate headquarters. "People are totally offended by what's on the air," attorney Louis Hiken told an NAB panel last week, deploring coast-to-coast "easy-listening stations selling Dodge Caravans, beer and tampons...
...Republicans' slim House majority went on the line in this November's election. He would much rather be recalled as the "transformational leader" (his words) who ushered in that majority for a generation. Now that last summer's attempt by House G.O.P. rebels to overthrow him is a distant memory, Gingrich is finding the Speaker's chair a lot more comfortable. "He wants the option of running [for President]," says a close associate. "But what he really wants is to restore his position as leader of the party...
...Priest Fainted, Catherine Temma Davidson's first novel, is another one of those lovely stories dealing with women who travel to distant lands trying to escape their mothers, only to discover--surprise!--that their lives are more similar to their mother's than they thought. Davidson also attempts to weave cooking, Greek mythology and sexual awakening into her alinear story, which ultimately tumbles like the Tower of Babel under its heavy pedanticness. Davidson, a poet, should not quit her day job. Although the language of The Priest Fainted is eloquent enough, the alinearity simply gets tire-some...