Word: distinctives
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...redeeming performance, at least in the first act, comes from Liam Craig as Mercury. Bearing a distinct similarity to many a Kevin Spacey turn, Craig presents the winged god as possessing a piercing intellect and dangerously sardonic tongue. Moreover, he revels in a malaise that contrasts brilliantly with his position as swift-footed messenger of the gods. By the second act, however, all the character elements which Craig carefully built up in the first act collapse. What is left is a dimensionless thug who spends 90 percent of his time on stage reveling in his ability to beat...
...Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that place." Rubbens belongs to a distinct class of young Europeans: mobile, multilingual professionals who live, work and play outside their native countries and who bounce across borders - for business or pleasure. To be sure, the advent of such transplants is far from widespread: in 1999, fewer than 2% of E.U. citizens aged 21 to 35 worked...
This clinical view of MCI deals with distinct changes in forgetfulness over a period of a year or two--changes that can be verified with psychological testing. "People start at different points," says Neil Buckholtz, chief of the dementias branch at the National Institute on Aging. "Everybody forgets where they put their keys. But if you forget what keys are for, that could be a concern...
...They manage, however, to keep the pressures of the field distinct from everyday life...
...freshmen do have a distinct advantage in the support that they receive both on and off the field from an accomplished group of veterans. Allard will rotate between her large selection of players to fine-tune her lineup before the Ivy season begins...