Word: detachedness
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What does the Jackie Onassis auction tell us? some things that we already knew, and some that we didn't. We knew that there were always two Jackies, really. One was moving and heroic and cultivated, the possessor of a detached dignity that kept us fascinated. The other was a...
The official portrait approaches a kind of apogee in the Ming dynasty too, but the show contains some striking earlier examples. Witness the anonymous 13th century effigy of the Empress Chabi, wife of the first Yuan Emperor, Shih-tsu, better known to us as Kublai Khan. Did she look like...
In the brief three months it has been on the air, the Best of American Bandstand has become one of VH1's top-rated programs, aiding the network in its haphazard quest to be seen as something other than a buzz bin for all things Celine Dion. The reruns, each...
"I called up a friend to get his advice," Lee says. "He put me on a three-way line on mute and called one of the VPs of his company. He asked the VP what he thought of all the companies I was thinking about and so I got to...
Increasingly, Fallows argues, journalists falsely pride themselves for being detached, indeed condescending, about the political process. Instead of trying to help people find common ground on complex issues--abortion, welfare reform, Medicaid--the media play up conflicts and cross fires in a quest for entertaining, diverting drama. "By choosing to...