Word: amissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glasses. Music comes blasting into the courtyard from some heavenly sphere--or is it really only that fourth floor window? Miraculously, a tire swing appears in a nearby tree. Idyllic, you say. Just exactly how a spring day should be, you say. Well, you're wrong. Something is amiss with this picture...
...nonmarital wife who is doing her best "not to keep things secret" and a nonmarital child of nine who "knows what the dynamics are." But there is also the marital wife who "knows, but tries to ignore the nonmarital family," plus some teen-age children who "sense something amiss." The husband is struggling-manfully, one might say-to deny everything. So, the letter asks, what would be "the ideal social relationship" among the various children, who are beginning to develop "mental-emotional problems"? And between the two rival women? And the grandparents and other relatives...
...West Germans knew something was amiss when Honecker avoided making any comments about East-West relations during a noticeably short visit to a West German exhibition at the Leipzig Trade Fair early last week. Said a Bonn official who watched the puzzling performance: "That was not the look of a man about to go West." A West German environmentalist who met with Honecker shortly after the decision to postpone the trip was made public said that the East German leader had complained about the "gross insults" he had received from Bonn. But Honecker also expressed his continuing determination to "limit...
...EARLY SCENE, in which Reve has just left the club with Christine, alerts us--in case the spider hadn't--that something is amiss. Maneuvering her flashy little sports car with suicidal abandon. Christine spirits Reve through a metaphysical traffic jam of omens, from bloody accidents to a neon sign that spells "spider" in Dutch on the front of her house. Later that night, Reve finds himself tormented with particularly nasty castration dreams that feature Christine wielding a pair of scissors in her blue-painted claws. Lest we dismiss the scene as a chuckle at Reve's castration complex...
...zigzag, 15,000-kilometer journey across 33 of the 50 American states, the dark skies seemed only to intensify the symbolic glow. The second runner, 91-year-old Abel Kiviat, silver medalist in the 1,500-meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer; he lit the torch of twelve-year-old Timothy Towers, who had won the honor in a raffle, and urged, "Carry on." But as the 22nd runner, Nicole Zell, age 13, started her kilometer outside city hall in Manhattan shortly after noon, word crackled over...