Word: lack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably don't make enough time for spontaneous, casual fun, and you have the little Harvard mini-tragedy of these "long-distance relationships." As hard as we try to stay in touch, it still feels like just that, staying in touch, and there's something tremendous lost in the lack of immediacy...
...this past summer -- and judging by the $792 million in box office receipts, many did -- you might have noticed a few of the trailers preceding the film promoted movies scheduled for release late in the bitter winter months. At that same screening, you might also have noticed a conspicuous lack of substance in these preview slots. One, hyping an animated feature called Titan A.E. simply featured Matt Damon voicing over images of a futuristic Earth being attacked by vicious bug-like creatures ripped off from Starship Troopers. Another, for the aforementioned Anna and the King was no less grandiose, featuring...
...audience to sympathize with the real Vann--a man who is tormented by nonexistent cops; a man whose killing is not always within his control ("You don't always choose what you do. Sometimes what you do chooses you," his voice-over proclaims); a man entirely unaware of his lack of identity...
...born of this attitude, as Hodge castigates Purdy more for who he is than for what he believes: "Apparently because we're all too ironic or falsely spiritual to believe in anything as simple and real as the value of living on a hillside farm in West Virginia, we lack a politics that functions as a repository of our hopes and dreams." Even to a reader less self-consciously worldly and less corrosively bitter than Hodge, Purdy's tone and substance--the fact that this book is about Jedediah Purdy, and that any power in the book springs from...
...taking low turnout as lack of interest," Nathans added. Panelists identified major areas in which UHS needs to improve, including some not mentioned in the survey...