Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid. "I am almost incredulous," exploded Patton...
...other hand, several small parts are done nearly perfectly. Kathleen Perkins wanders about comically decrying life as illusion or delusion or perhaps just "mislaid." Deadpan Archie and Smith stops the show as a cabman--hired by Vandergelder to help separate Ambrose and Ermengarde, but sublimely unruffled by their antics. Best of all is Laurence Senelick as the experienced drunkard Malachi Stack. His monologue on the advisability of nurturing one vice and letting "your virtues spring up modestly around it" is itself worth the price of admission...
...series of further strange deaths among the medical staff. The hospital is in a flurry, the demonstrators are chanting outside, the slimy capitalist is trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director is going frantic trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether to stay or go to Mexico, she dressed in a nurse's uniform because her blouse had been ripped...
...withers or dies after reaching renown-suggest what the author is up to. Goatish carnality is occasionally his medium, but he is writing about the mysterious web of past-present, the great arcs of possibility that bemuse a boy and, broken, haunt a man. His six characters are the mislaid and scattered pieces of one, the teacher who dreamed of painting, wrote a little, had a talent for music...
...people who run the whole affair do their best to be prepared for such unscheduled events-the executive secretary, who does everything from tracking down mislaid children to re-introducing their parents, wouldn't dream of setting out for Essex without armloads of safety pins, suntan oil, and Kotex. But you can't foresee every contingency. Gosh, the unexpected is half the fun of reunions...