Word: dismayed
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...were even two books about him published there. "For a few years, I was getting sacks full of origami and very sensitive letters which said I have sensitive eyes and a kind face," he says. "Little did they know I wanted their money, not their love." To Grant's dismay, Maurice pegged him for dramas, and he wound up in a variety of serious Eurofilms including Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day. "If they would only give me something lighter," he recalls saying to himself, "I'd be better." Finally, Grant's amusing performance in Roman Polanski's Bitter...
Last April, when many students and faculty members erupted in dismay over the announcement that former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell would be the Commencement speaker, Green noted that he had had another choice in mind...
...FIRST DAY OF ELECTION WEEK IN Italy was an inauspicious one for Silvio Berlusconi. The media doge turned politician passed several fitful hours last Sunday watching in dismay as his championship Milan A.C. soccer team suffered a rare upset to archrival Naples. But there was no augury in the loss -- at least not for the moment. Just seconds after 10 the following night, when two days' worth of voting was done, Berlusconi stood triumphant on Italy's center stage; Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most...
...been accorded a solid if not definitive biography. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition (BasicBooks; 590 pages; $30) by Michael Wreszin is the kind of academic "lumbering dinosaur" -- the author's modest self-appraisal -- that might have sent its subject to his typewriter harrumphing with dismay. Wreszin dutifully portrays the man and his times but too often paraphrases rather than quotes directly from a writer whose style was the essence of jaunt and spark. (In fairness, Wreszin does have the good sense to cite Macdonald's lead of a New Yorker profile: "The Ford Foundation is a large body...
TIME: A lot of the opposition in the U.S. is a reflection of public dismay over Tiananmen Square. How do you deal with that...