Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buckingham Palace to inform the Queen of his intention to resign from office. An hour later, when he broke the news to his Cabinet of his "irrevocable" decision to step down this month, the ministers sat in stunned silence; tears rolled down a few cheeks. So great was the disbelief by the BBC that it delayed telecasting the flash bulletin from 10 Downing Street for 32 minutes until it had been double-checked...
...must convince his readers that The Boys from Brazil is more than just a sick joke. He cannot. Levin's primitive literary skills aside, the turning of Josef Mengele into a mad scientist from the pages of a 1940s comic book requires more than a suspension of disbelief. It also requires a suspension of taste. Exploiting such a monster for entertainment and profit is enough to give evil a bad name...
...first contest, Dave Albert (118 lbs.) was shaded by his Yale opponent, 4-3. The winning points came when the Bulldog grappler tried a pinning move on Albert, who rolled through safely. Nevertheless, the referee awarded two points to Yale for a predicament, a call that left Lee in disbelief...
While Dartmouth was coming back, while the visiting Hanoverians screamed "Go Green Go" the Harvard players were greeted with silence and tension from their fans. Disbelief is one thing, and tacit rejection of a struggling team another. Maybe a noisy Harvard crowd would not have stemmed the tide of Green goals that turned the game around, but then again, who knows? It wouldn't have hurt...
...sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale and are aware that his arrival in the camps hinged on a series of accidents, his look of terror and disbelief forces us to view the holocaust afresh. After thirty years of cultural bombardment by images of Nazi atrocities, that a director should be able to make even the hardened viewer consider their enormity, as if for the first time, is a remarkable achievement...