Word: dismissed
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Alan Alda's unsinkable niceness tempered Neil Simon's unyielding self- criticism in a surprisingly funny and engrossing play about a writer who prefers to deal with people as characters inside his head, so he can summon, alter or dismiss them at will...
Beneath the irony and polish, Barnes' seems to be enormously vulnerable. He reminds me of one of those boys you knew in high school, not exactly shy, but coolly appraising and refracting experiences through the prism of detachment, hampered by their cleverness. But you did not dismiss them because you realized the enormity of their potential...
California becomes not so much a place where these tensions are resolved as a realm of simultaneity. It is the state people dismiss as having "no history," and yet it is strewn with old missions from the Spanish occupancy. It is the state where the place names on highway maps speak of a mythic Catholic past (San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo) and a bland suburban present (Riverside, Pleasant Hill...
...records in Washington, London and Oslo. Funk's report makes clear that Mullins informed Baker of the searches on or around Oct. 1. When the searches proved futile, Tamposi and her colleagues suggested Clinton's files had been "tampered with" -- a claim that took the FBI seven days to dismiss. But those were seven days in which Clinton had to endure a new round of stories speculating on his character and his patriotism -- just what the White House wanted in the first place...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge is currently deliberating on a motion to dismiss the charges against the defendants in the Commonwealth Day School case, one of the most controversial legal battles in the city...