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...readily apparent. That's why Jerry Brown is such an attractive and at once disturbing politician--though scatterbrained, he thinks about issues in new terms and with new solutions. It may not make a lot of practical sense when discussing economic problems to say "let's explore outer space." But it is, at least, an idea, and perhaps more palatable than either giving people CETA jobs or awarding them the chance to make minimum and less at McDonalds. Yes, what John Anderson said made sense, more sense than the solutions of either of the two major candidates. But the answers...
...which people can enact their serial selves, in somewhat the way that divorce permits serial marriages. In some cases, the serial selves of burnout are like the marshmallows that Cub Scouts thrust into the campfire flame. They hold them there until they are charred, peel away the blackened outer skin and eat it, then thrust the soft white marshmallow into the flame again, repeating the process until there is nothing left.- By Lance Morrow
...steady climate, with little fog or pollution. It consists of a 4,000-ft. paved runway surrounded by 120 half-acre lots that border on 100-ft.-wide, four-lane taxiway-roads with names like Lockheed Drive and Boeing Road. The two center lanes are for cars, the outer two for airplanes. Lots are priced from $35,000 to $80,000. So far, 50 homes valued at $150,000 to $500,000 have been built...
Images of the cowboy are never difficult to find in America. Though Hollywood has virtually stopped manufacturing oaters-and counteroaters like Hud-young producers and directors labor on their outer-space operas shod in $1,000 hand-made cowboy boots. Factory hands outfit pickup trucks as high-ridin', gas-guzzlin' quarter horses: shotguns are displayed in the rear windows, and western music yips through the air conditioning. Whether the collars be blue or button-down, frontier chic is a perennial fashion. Our conviction that the cowboy was an enviable individualist in denim persists like a psychic saddlesore...
...school of the novel. Accompanied by Sons Colin, 16, and Brendan, 11, Irving arrives at the Millbrook gym dressed to grapple: red singlet, kneepads and ear guards that resemble perforated saucers. In preparation for his role as the epical Wrestler-Writer T.S. Garp, "Mork" Williams has selected a modified outer-space look: a shiny blue and green workout suit that encases him from neck to ankles...