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...report by the BBC that Bonner had arrived in Vienna yesterday was incorrect, her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich, said in a public statement yesterday...

Author: By Oded Salomy, | Title: Sakharov Wife to Come To Newton if Released | 10/30/1985 | See Source »

...manager said the charges were incorrect and that bad weather had destroyed the posters...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Undergraduate Council Election Results Held | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

...comic possibilities inherent in the tailspin of logic toward the absurd. Mr. Palomar's relentless speculations render him buffoonish. Passing a woman sunbathing topless on a beach, he averts his eyes lest she cover herself and embarrass them both. On reflection, though, he decides that his behavior was incorrect, since it reinforced outmoded taboos against nudity. So he walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape. But that was wrong too, he concludes, because it denied the woman her humanity. A third try proves equally unsatisfactory, since his brief glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spectacles Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...wonderful to have access to a printing press, isn't, it, even when what you publish with it ("The Globe's Here...Substantially," 8/9/85) is incorrect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Substantially Incorrect | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

...must not only be considered in light of the conditions of the Shiites of Lebanon in the recent years, but also within the overall context of the political situation in Lebanon and Eastern Mediterranean region. Mr. Kahn's description of Middle Eastern history is often misleading and sometimes factually incorrect. First, the American Marines entered Lebanon in the late summer and early fall of 1982, not in 1983, as Mr. Kahn states. Further, the goal of the American presence was not, as Mr. Kahn insists, "to end a bitter war which threatened Israel..." or to stem the "geographical and religious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consider Lebanon | 7/19/1985 | See Source »

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