Word: distantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...span received only small change to celebrate its 50th birthday: $70,000, vs. a projected $6 million to be lavished on the Golden Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant rural areas into bustling commuter suburbs. In 1985 the San Francisco Bay area, with 5.8 million residents, became the nation's fourth largest metropolitan region...
...point. Friends Neal and Brad (Will Provost and Matthew Schuerman) encounter Bevvy, the clinging woman (Karen Petrone); Alyssa, the Cold Pretentious Artist (Sarah Beck); and Lynn, the "mature" but power concerned puppeteer. All roles are performed soundly, with particular realism coming from a "golly-gee" Provost and the emotionally distant Beck. I'm not sure if Petrone's Bevvy is quite what was aimed for or not, but she does get a sense of "clingingness" across in any case. Schuerman impersonates the worldly beer-drinking buddy with recognizable accuracy...
...exciting time in this research," said Dr. Andrew Monjan, acting chief of the neuroscience of aging branch of the National Institute on Aging. Potential causes and cures "are no longer as distant," he said...
Radcliffe finished the competition with an overall score of 81 points. Brown was a distant second with 101 points. The large margin of victory proved that the Black and White dominated the weekend--consisting of 13 races in two divisons...
...their late 30s, 40s, 50s. Carpenters. Plumbers. Garbage men. Cops. Most of them are exathletes of some distant, local repute who, like most adult American males, must now take their sports vicariously. They arrive at the bar early every Sunday morning. Over coffee and the morning papers, they discuss the day's odds. "Miami, 2 1/2 over Denver," says the bartender. "Who do ya like?" Opinions are given, denigrated, defended. One of the men, a former semipro baseball pitcher, says to another man who was once his teammate, "You know, I'm thinking of making a comeback next spring...