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The Russian newspaper Segodnya , commenting on Vice President Al Gore's visit to Russia, said President Boris Yeltsin, vacationing in Karelia, had deliberately distanced himself from Gore because he didn't want to look as if he was begging for American money.
But Brit Stephen Frears directs in a distanced and self-consciously classical style.
Even the Irish--the ones in Ireland--have distanced themselves from the New York legislation.
Elena, a course of radiation treatments for breast cancer behind her, has distanced herself from her dying mother, her rich ex-husband, her resentful daughter.
(The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."