Word: defectiveness
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...mistake, the first such defect in U.S. coinage in 17 years, is the sort of accident that numismatists love. The Mint in fact knew nothing of the bad pennies until two of them were sent in by collectors asking if they were valid coins. Now some collectors have placed ads in Coin World offering $95-$125 for one of the pennies...
...levels of responsibility. The salesgirl shrugs and says: "I just work here." A car owner takes his new-model, newly purchased car back to his dealer to complain that, say, the trunk lid no longer latches shut when slammed down. The dealer cannot fix it; it is a manufacturing defect. Is it worth the bother of writing to the Detroit manufacturer, which may or may not give satisfaction? Too often, the car owner curses, slams the lid eight times for every time it latches, and resigns himself...
...offers about his parental problems is that he had a sibling rivalry with Jesus Christ. The time is 1950, and before Heather can make sense out of the Korean War, he is in an enemy prison camp. For reasons that have nothing to do with brainwashing, he chooses to defect to Red China, where he goes bamboo by marrying a pretty Maoist. Aesthetics, not politics, is Heather's thing. Dialectical materialism and the concept of the Holy Trinity appeal to him for their poetic tensions...
...three months ago, but did little to head it off. Brandt, the brilliant idea man, remained characteristically aloof. He knew that his unstable coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats included some potential defectors on the treaty votes; they were treated like traitors, which simply strengthened their resolve to defect...
...ingenious and convincing. But Fritz the Cat is, for a cartoon, exasperatingly slow: Bakshi's sense of pace and editing is snail-like, and the dialogue mostly naive and muffled. Moreover, the characters are so ill-defined that Fritz's relation to them becomes incomprehensible-a sad defect for a movie that should have been as crisp and schematic as a puppet show. The voice-over acting constantly hovers just below the threshold of competence...