Word: withdrawnness
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...touch with reality but also accessible to the audience's experiences break down quickly. Delichatsios pulls at her pajama-like clothing to indicate nervousness. She speaks in a stilted and unnatural monotone. Her eyes stare at one object, then dart to another. While she is supposed to be withdrawn, her body language is confrontational. She fails to represent realistically her character's psychological profile...
Fine registered for the council elections on Sunday and already dropped campaign literature at the Jordan Terrace to kick off his reelection campaign. Though he has withdrawn from the election, Fine's name will appear on the council ballots. He said yesterday he will accept the seat if he is reelected...
...remaining troops immediately, leaving the work of nation building to other U.N. members. The TIME/CNN poll shows that only 22% of the public think the U.S. should engage in disarming the warlords. But Clinton advisers fear the whole U.N. mission would collapse if the U.S. military backbone were withdrawn, returning Somalia to anarchy and famine. "Our sense is to keep picking away one lieutenant here, one bunch of militiamen there," says a Clinton official. "If we keep up the pressure, we'll eventually get there...
...administration, the Fly Club's decision to admit women would be sufficient cause to reconsider the organization for official University recognition, which was withdrawn almost a decade ago because of the final clubs' single-sex status...
Frank O'Hara's short life, somewhat surprisingly, does not always make for the best reading. The poet laureate of 1950s bohemian New York passed his first 20 years in relative quiet, leading a withdrawn existence in a small Massachussetts town. And despite the assurance on the book jacket of Brad Gooch's City Poet that O'Hara's accidental death at 40 struck down a poet "at the height of his powers," this book portrays these last years as more consumed by depression and alcoholism than creative passion...