Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main reason is that plans for University Place are not only Harvard's. From the start, neighborhood rerepresentatives sat in on design sessions, made suggestions, and watched happily--and often with disbelief--as the University responded to their concerns...
Cooke's Tale The newsroom clatter of our medium-sized California daily diminished as reporters gathered around the wire machine, watching in disbelief as the incredible story unfolded of Janet Cooke's fictional article about '"Jimmy" for the Washington Post [April 27]. I cringe and wait for the person who, while I am on my next assignment, looks me in the eye and says, "Why don't you just make it up? The Washington Post does...
...minutes later he stood watching in disbelief as Harvard's winning kick split the uprights, allowing Harvard to win its second crucial game in two weeks on the basis of scrum half fakes. For the twenty-second game in a row, Harvard rugby took no prisoners...
...thing. Slapstick relies entirely on people taking unexpected tumbles, and musical comedy--like slapstick--creates its own sensibilities. Almost anything can fly in a musical if the songs are good, the dancing snappy, and the jokes, if not hilarious, at least well-timed. The willing suspension of disbelief that lies at the heart of the theater can become practically cryogenic under the spell of all that glitter. Complete strangers start singing in harmony, villains start tapdancing--no one will bat an eye if it's snappy enough. A.W.O.L. has all of the elements required for a good musical--maybe...
...political oppression did not end with the overthrow of the Shah's regime, and under the country's new 84-year-old leader. Ayatollah Khomeini, government by decapitation flourished. In the eyes of Kazem, indeed in the eyes of most of the nations of the world, who watched with disbelief as 52 Americans were taken hostage and paraded through the streets of Teheran, the sword of oppression had simply changed hands. The voice of government opposition still could not and would not be heard. As Kazem looked on from his new home in Houston, where he had since married...