Word: disbelief
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...smock with sunglasses and his bouffant hairdo. He looked like a visiting Hollywood director, being welcomed by hundreds of Russian soldiers, and officials making speeches professing mutual friendship that sounded like they could have been written in 1975. The spectacle left even many Russian foreign policy experts gaping in disbelief...
...story had been absolutely epic in Philadelphia, touching off endless rounds of horror and disbelief. Ira Einhorn? Peace-loving, earth-hugging Ira Einhorn? In the March 29, 1979, Philadelphia Daily News, the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was nearly invisible under the mutant block letters at the top of Page...
Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures to make the reader feel the same discomfort and paranoia that his characters experience. His intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to reveal its beauty...
...doing very well outside a small community of die-hard rock fans. But that has changed with the recent success of Yura Yura Tei Koku, a once-underground band that sounds remarkably like Woodstock rocker Jimi Hendrix. "This band is selling out 5,000-seat theaters," Matsutani says with disbelief. "People seem to be tired of the same old pop?they're looking for feeling, a kind of musical trip...
...counter and watches a long line of passengers grow even longer. For 12 full minutes the line barely moves. There are seven ticket agents, but three are devoted to first-class flyers. Freni is growing as irritated as the customers. Later, he's down at baggage claim, watching in disbelief as arriving passengers are directed to a luggage conveyor belt that is clearly out of order. In fact, it's roped...