Word: outer
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When she first joined ECHO, an East Coast electronic community, Marcia Bowe dubbed herself ``Miss Outer Buro 1991,'' a handle that facetiously implied beauty queen-like poise, glamour, congeniality. And soon enough, Bowe was enjoying the adulation of fellow ``ECHOids'' who posted messages praising her wit, candor and smarts. Such celebrity was heady stuff for Bowe, a free-lance writer who describes herself in real life as shy and wary of emotional encounters. ``I became addicted to this constant stream of approval,'' she says. ``It was like a big co-dependency machine.'' As Bowe began spending up to 100 hours...
Instead of reflecting reality, the preoccupation with outer space stems from a tendency to project our troubles onto asteroids and little green men. For example, most psychologists believe that victims of so-called alien abduction are subconsciously expressing their innermost fears and desires...
Imust admit that I am writing this with a divided heart. Part of me objects to it: the part that dreams about outer space, that as child turned my playroom into the bridge of a spaceship. In third grade, I even wrote a short science-fiction story about an astronaut who is sent to the far ends of the galaxy to investigate a mysterious alien message...
...Charlottesville, Virginia, to become the next Seattle. Lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, a hobby painter and self-proclaimed mamma's boy, harbors no Eddie Vedder-ish loathing of fame, though. "I'm grateful as hell. I wouldn't mind people knowing our songs in Tahiti," says Matthews, "or even Outer Mongolia...
...work on both outer landscape (trees and the world outside) and inner landscape (of the mind) have been consistently excellent," Winter said. "Her art has been less well-known than it might be, but with the Art in America article [published in November 1994] and the quality of her work, it may really start to take...