Word: distractedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Berrys may seem at first like your average preppy. New England family, this idea is abruptly dismissed as much too boring for the likes of this movie. For starters, Frank announces calmly that he is queer. But no one in his family seems to care, indeed Bridges' Win...
By that time, Jackson's moral crusade on behalf of the nation's have-nots had lost a good deal of its luster. Appearing dejected and distracted, the normally upbeat Jackson stumped listlessly through New Hampshire in the closing days of the campaign and finished in a tie...
The Sunday sermon at the small parish church in Elles-borough last week concentrated on the evils of wealth, but at least one member of the congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country...
Even so, it was a surprising jump. Morgan, the son of a successful oil executive, had aimed at the top of a business career from the time he left college. He had a single-minded determination that was often concealed beneath an exterior of rumpled suits and scuffed shoes that...
This fall, as Thayer struggled with the Pentagon budget, he was reported to be increasingly distracted by his growing legal problems. Budget decisions on matters ranging from new weapons systems to new uniforms began to pile up on his desk; by mid-December the stack was 18 in. high.