Word: amissions
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...State Department staffers suspected that someone may have tampered with Clinton's passport records. They informed the FBI, which launched a hurried investigation of the file. Meanwhile, a Bush Administration official leaked word of the investigation to the press. The FBI investigators, however, ended the probe without finding anything amiss...
Which is why the omission of a lyric sheet from his latest album,Your Arsenal, is a little unsettling. It's the first suggestion that something's amiss on Gloomland. The opening track, "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side," offers little consolation for the skeptical listener. Over the loud but unremarkable guitar crash, Morrissey offers lyrics that sound as if they're lifted from a Debbie Gibson single: "Give yourself a break before you break down ," he snivels. This from the man who created the "Hairdresser on Fire" and put a Walkman on Joan...
...Shah's last Prime Minister, inside his home in a Paris suburb. This was the second attempt on Bakhtiar's life, and its success embarrassed the French government. The four-member police detail that watches Bakhtiar's house round the clock did not even notice that anything was amiss until 36 hours after the slaying...
Frank Zappa knew something was seriously amiss when he came across a booklet called A Guide to the Alternative Recordings of Frank Zappa. The pamphlet listed 400 titles -- or about 350 more than the veteran rocker has ever released. "In 25 years I have made about 50 real albums, and somehow guys with little cassette machines have managed to produce eight times as many albums and offer them for sale," laments Zappa...
...core of the problem, Hall says, "goes back to the neglect of the subject matter in the existing course offerings of 1965 and earlier, and the general atmosphere at the University that didn't find anything amiss about such neglect...