Word: amiss
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...Mary Ann Gerchas, the woman who claimed she had seen men in knit caps running away from Nicole's house on the night of the murder. Cochran said another couple will testify that at 10:25 p.m., 10 minutes after prosecutors say the murders were committed, they saw nothing amiss outside Nicole's house...
...1970s scientists began to suspect that people with dyslexia have some fundamental problem with their vision or hearing, since children verbalize - words when learning to read. Studies have since suggested that victims have something amiss in the cerebral cortex, an all-important part of the brain responsible for thought and language. Last week researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presented evidence that may pinpoint a spot in the cortex where dyslexia originates. It is an area of tissue called the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN), which affects hearing by acting as a relay station for auditory...
...Senate about the propriety of the President bringing to Washington another of his friends from Arkansas. For good measure, the Wall Street Journal reported that in the 1970s Arnold had made $500,000 in the commodities market, though the paper gave no reason to believe there was anything amiss about his earnings...
...observant viewer, however, it is obvious from the very beginning of "Jules and Jim" that something is amiss. Before the credits, while the screen is dark, Moreau's voice pronounces these words: "You said to me: I love you. I said to you: wait. I was going to say: take me. You said to me: go away." The mystery, the enigmatic, vaguely ominous prosaicness of Moreau's words spoken in darkness, undermines the brightness to come...
...something was amiss. Here was a radical Sixties left-Libertarian being introduced by Harvard's tenured Fifties conservative. Openly lesbian, Paglia (pronounced PAH-lee-yah) supports the complete legalization of abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography and drug use. Mansfield, on the other hand, renewed his notoriety this year with his testimony that homosexuality undermines civilization. Pagila thinks our society needs more sex. Mansfield thinks we need more shame...