There is little but rhetoric, however, in "Frontiers of Dreams and Fears," a manipulative study of the long-distance friendship between two Palestinian girls.

Over the years, it became a long-distance friendship.

It looks as if Mr. Maupin may be setting up trouble between Gabriel and Donna, who is Pete's stepmother and could be antagonized by the erotically charged long-distance friendship.

For example, in maintaining long-distance friendship, face-to-face communication was only the fourth most common way of maintaining ties, after telephone, email and instant messaging.

Their long-distance friendship lasted for over thirty years.

Shawn's great-aunt knew this boy's family through her church conference and said she thought that the two children resembled each other, so Dorothy wrote to the family a few years earlier, describing Shawn, and struck up a long-distance friendship.

Your youthful best pal may not remember things the way you do, he may be disinclined to pick up a long-distance friendship, or, sadly, his life may have gone haywire and he just isn't up to rejuvenating the old bond.

Instead, it was the beginning of a long-distance friendship.

(Dargis) 'THE NIGHT LISTENER' (R, 82 minutes) Robin Williams plays a writer and radio host who strikes up a long-distance friendship with a young man who may not exist.

The band describes the album as "the product of long-distance friendships linked through an appreciation for music, nature, and a mutual desire to defy common song structure."