Word: chagrined
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...open." Yet Richard yearns to influence his wife's work. Her latest novel, he tells her, needs a "strong central framework of ironic self-awareness." Published without any such carpentry, it becomes her biggest success. He hopes -- even expects -- that she will write about him, but learns to his chagrin that her next project will be about his relatives, particularly his rather drab mother. "My entire family lies gasping on the bank, waiting to be gutted and filleted," he mourns, "and turned into delicious fish-stew, while I'm tossed back into the river...
Currently, nothing prevents men and women from living together unofficially, much to the chagrin of their roommates. Many couples live out of one room anyway, with the non-resident member of the couple using his or her own room only as a mailing address. Others live together over the summer, only to suffer artificial separation during the year. Short of implementing a John Silber-style curfew on coed visitation (and concommitant encouragement of masturbation), Harvard cannot prevent either phenomenon...
...chagrin of many East Germans, it turns out that no more than 1,000 of the dogs are really trained to attack, and the East Germans are keeping those; the rest are pussycats, decoys whose ominous presence once created fear among the civilian populace...
...Freeman passed up the black-exploitation films of the early 1970s and instead took the role of the hip character Easy Reader on the public-television series The Electric Company. The job provided a steady income and made Freeman so famous with the preteen set that, to his great chagrin, he is still stopped in the street by fans. After a while, he felt trapped, hungering for meatier roles but needing the money to put bread on the table for his wife and two daughters. He began drinking heavily. "I'm not an alcoholic or anything," he says...
...chagrin of Soviet scientists, the thought bacteria are everywhere. Following the evening news on TV, hypnotist Anatoli Kashpirovsky holds seances to heal broken limbs, scars and blindness. Kashpirovsky claims to have helped hundreds of people through surgery without anesthesia and to have mesmerized others into losing up to 60 lbs. The Ukrainian has thousands of fans, apparently even among the bureaucracy. Last week, under official auspices, Kashpirovsky held a briefing at the Foreign Ministry Press Center. "People sometimes see me and idolize me," he said, adding that he could treat AIDS. "Give me 500 or 600 patients in a hall...