Word: askew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cards on the table right off, shall we? There is something very bizarrely askew with the Loeb Main-stage's present production of Macbeth. In a show which otherwise seems to have all the right elements, Saturday's performance changed from Shakespearean tragedy into something just short of the bizarre with the attitude of the main player Macbeth himself...
These are actually the film's most believable plot elements. Try not to think about the bland detective who spouts quantum physics and the cleaning lady who plays a key role in the government's plan. The movie doesn't operate in the real world; everything is slightly askew...
Darrow's client is a serial-killing woman who has murdered several adults and a large number of children, including at least three of her own. And here is where the plot seems a bit askew. As in real life, Darrow is a passionate death-penalty opponent. If he loses, his thoroughly guilty client goes to the electric chair. Just deserts aside, the novel has clip-clopped along too jocularly for too many chapters for this to be an acceptable outcome. Well, can the child killer go free? Perish forbid. Therefore...
...Scott's hubris may have cost him his empire. Amid signs of growing trouble at Columbia, he continued to pursue business as usual. In fact, the business was going badly askew. The problems worsened in March when agents descended on Columbia hospitals in El Paso, scooping up medical files by the truckload. Among other things, the feds sought evidence that Columbia, which treats some 125,000 patients a day, had overcharged Medicare by millions of dollars. Two weeks ago, federal agents seized documents from 31 Columbia locations in six states (Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah). By last...
...groan swept across the operations room at the J.P.L., and pictures transmitted by the lander soon afterward showed Sojourner askew, leaning against Yogi and seemingly helpless. But a quick check of the rover's systems confirmed that it was in good health, and controllers had little doubt that they could restart Sojourner, back it off the rock and try a better approach...