Word: outerness
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...drawing was of some children in a jungle clearing. A Khmer Rouge soldier had his rifle trained on them. Off to the side of the drawing was a large circle with four lines extending from the outer rim to the center, where there was a hole like a wheel's hub. Leading away from one part of the outer rim were three lines, and from another part a single line with a small ring...
...recalled was the formidable legal mind who was utterly lovable. "I was not what might be called a Brennan liberal," Justice David H. Souter, who replaced Brennan, recalled in 1992. "I did not know what kind of reception I would get from him. He saw me standing in the outer reception room and he came forward to greet me. I got ready for a handshake and what I got instead was a bear hug," Souter recalled. "Justice Brennan just threw his arms around me and he hugged me, and he hugged me, and he went on hugging...
...that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and--oh yes, oh help--Palmer Joss...
...that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a sort of New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils of state as spiritual consultant to the President. "Director Robert Zemeckis and his colleagues have been all over the press congratulating themselves on throwing an intellectually challenging movie...
...teenager, "become a terrible case of nerves, become addicted to coffee--drinking about 20 cups a day--and had to give up cigarettes when I got up to 4 packs a day." Where some writers give the world their inner selves, Thompson gave even his intimates a well-lighted outer shell...