Word: lacunae
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...course, physical love ain't chopped liver, either. Avoiding all one-on-one contact is a lacuna that will become all the more glaring as babes like Will and Ford remain unattached. Even actor McCormack said this summer that he felt Will was ready for an on-air kiss. As Ford tells his estranged wife, "Sooner or later, I'm going to end up naked, in bed, with another man." But when he does, he may be bound by TV's answer to the military's fumbling version of tolerance. Go ahead and ask, and please do tell. Just...
...There was a hole in Harvard's globe of international and area scholarship," said Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Now, thanks to the generosity of David Rockefeller '36, whose $11 million gift will inaugurate the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, this lacuna will be filled...
...Seoul was actually mounting a show of strength to rally domestic political sentiment. Moreover, South Korea's Defense Department could not produce any recordings of the loudspeaker announcements, which apparently had not been made in areas of the DMZ patrolled by U.S. troops. A government spokesman explained this lacuna by claiming that official policy is "not to disclose how any intelligence matter was obtained." Washington, however, flatly dismisses the possibility that South Korea was behind any fabrication. If Seoul had been playing disinformation games, moreover, it got badly burned. The government's clumsy handling of the loudspeaker announcements...
...Campaign Practices Act. Still secret, awaiting further court action, were the names and amounts that were bestowed upon the Republicans between March 10 and April 7, the date when the new campaign disclosure act became law. Thus the possibility remained that the important Republican contributors were hiding in the lacuna of a legal technicality. The 283 whose names and gifts were revealed might raise an occasional eyebrow. Among them...
Needless to say, the pathos is, in this production, an awkward intrusion. Contrasting strangely with the thick boffola of the comic scenes, it produces a sense of dislocation, a sort of emotional lacuna. Not that there is anything wrong with emotional lacunae: such an effect was doubtless what the producers of the original film were after. But the dislocation in the present version acts to no purpose and fails to convey the desired jarring effect...