Word: far-flung
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David Frost, the deferential, attentive, calculating, smily, terribly appreciative interviewer and talk-show "host" is an imposing entertainer-imperator. His far-flung enterprises range from packaging TV shows to film production and pop concerts, from book publishing to an investment company...
There is some question whether the far-flung and decentralized Mafia still has a boss of all bosses (many organized-crime authorities argue that it is more an honorific than an actual executive post). But if the position does exist, is Galante...
...work, which is assuming something of a ministry; for it is plain that the word we bring is something that many young people have longed to hear, namely that America is a part of the great Western World whose roots lie in the Mediterranean and whose branches lie on far-flung continents...
...Love is not truly a novel but a linking of short stories. The author's chief concern is to render her characters' responses to intense moments of their lives - one of the working definitions of the short story of the '40s and '50s. Her far-flung locations are not textured settings but flimsy sets where the author vainly at tempts to stage her quiet drama of rootlessness and disaffection...
Second best is probably the telephone. A reluctant memo writer (though a prolific doodler), Murdoch directs his far-flung empire almost entirely by phone. For an hour most nights, he conducts a long-distance séance (at $3 a minute) with Ken May, his Australian proconsul, from the 18th century desk in his study. Murdoch can be a telephonic terror. Pubs full of sacked editors in London and Sydney curse his quick temper, his reluctance to dispense praise?...