Word: error
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climactic murder by blowtorch -- seemed at the 1957 debut to arise from Williams' inner demons. Three decades of civil rights struggle compelled a whole nation to see those demons as its own. Yet if the descent into lynch-mob madness echoes grim headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with every few sentences of dialogue, to underscore shifts in mood and to cue the audience that it has entered a realm of symbol and ritual. Pickup trucks outside a storefront sound as loud...
...response. A pretty substantial number of men might have said, "Cook. Well, half the time--the other half I'll do it," or "Make love. Then go to the office and help support the family while I stay at home with the kids." Another possible explanation is a sampling error. It could be that the 100 men who were surveyed by Family Feud all happened to be chauvinists...
After the election of George Bush, left-wing activism was supposed to end. Campus activists were supposed to be too dispirited to hold noisy rallies. With the Reagan Revolution vindicated by the 1988 election results, young socialists were supposed to realize the error of their ways and flock to business school...
...dissension it has caused, it may have been a mistake to implement the May cut-off. But it bears repeating that the union makes its own rules. There is no reason for the staff position to find, in what appears to be little more than a scheduling error, evidence for unfounded fears that all power corrupts...
...Crimson misstated the content of the admissions office's January statement and regrets the error...