Word: distinctives
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...story's action takes place mostly on couches and at tables where the guys drink and needle each other right from the beginning. Rehr, a native of Denmark who moved to New York in the '90s, has an exceptional talent for creating compelling, nuanced urbanite characters. Each has a distinct, believable personality driven by vulnerabilities that inevitably reveal themselves over the course of the story. Between the moments of emotional nakedness you get to enjoy the easy banter of smart friends. It's like eavesdropping on the table next to yours at Balthazar...
John Vanderslice sums up his musical range in just the first three songs of his latest full-length, and it goes something like this: melodramatically driven fuzzed-out faux-blues, electronic melodramatic pounding and piano ballads (melodramatic). On Cellar Door, Vanderslice combines and recombines these elements to find distinct directions for his sad-sack male songwriter’s backing band to explore. The result is meticulously beautiful. But over each unique instrumental backdrop comes that same mono-stylistic voice that Vanderslice can’t seem to outgrow. His intensely sincere, melodic moan pushes already overwrought lyrics...
...investment vehicle of choice for millions of people. About $500 billion resides in separate accounts. Yes, that's a long way from the $7 trillion in mutual funds right now. But since the middle 1990s, assets in separate accounts, in which your money is set aside as a distinct pool, have been growing twice as fast as mutual-fund assets, in which your cash is commingled. According to estimates by the Money Management Institute, a trade group for private asset managers, separate-account assets should double in three years, triple in five years and hit $2 trillion...
...identified, and they know a great deal more than they did in the 1940s, when Alfred Kinsey, followed by the research team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s, published some of the first scholarly studies of human sexuality. Those studies concluded that sexual response proceeds in distinct stages, beginning with excitement--erection in men, engorgement of vaginal and clitoral tissue in women--proceeding to orgasm and finally to "resolution," in which tissues return to their normal state...
...focusing attention on the overly-broad enforcement of the statute, [the brief] calls the court’s attention to a domain in which distinct constitutional violations become visible,” Halley said...