Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the arrival of the red biplane in the ordered midst of the family, however, the stage takes on a surrealistic disarray. The uprooted plants in the greenhouse float eerily in mid-air, while the displaced iron lattice remains at its impossible, displaced angle, leaving a gaping hole in the barrier between the isolated little community and the outside world...
...story came at a high-stress moment. In addition to the marital disarray, ! his father had just died and his last three movies had bombed. "It was starting to look like" -- the voice assumed is a prissy superego -- " 'Uh- oh. Have we made several wrong choices? Have we just batted out at the bottom of the third?' It was a pivotal time...
...insiders were surprised when Bush turned to Skinner to reverse his sagging political fortunes and end the disarray at the White House. In three years as Secretary of Transportation, Skinner has emerged as the Administration's top crisis manager, a loyalist whose tenacity and competence have earned him Bush's respect and admiration. Most important, the 53-year-old Illinois lawyer lacks both the ideological agenda and know-it-all arrogance that made Sununu an enemy of nearly everyone in Washington. "He wanted someone in the job as loyal as John," Skinner said last week in an interview with TIME...
...further sign of communist disarray, the widow of Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist who founded and presided over the original dictatorship for 41 years, was arrested on charges of corruption. Although bringing to book Nexhmije Hoxha, a powerful figure in her own right, was high on the opposition's agenda, the arrest came too late to keep the government together as the Democrats demanded that elections be held as early as next month. Given the social unrest exacerbated by drastic economic reforms, the Democrats are confident that this time they will oust the communists once...
Amidst the disarray, there have been several bright points for the Crimson...