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Word: mislaid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what is saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no "meaning" beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Crippling Sensitivity | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no "meaning" beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Crippling Sensitivity | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

This is the first time in at least 25 years that the registrar's office has mislaid such a large group of study cards, she added...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber and Harry Litman, S | Title: Several Study Cards Lost In Registrar Office Shuffle | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...that there are only a few really noticeable songs on it. Most of the cuts are assured and polished, but there's some inner conviction missing--which seems odd given Santana's personal faith. It seems ironic that, in the process of finding himself as an individual, Santana has mislaid some of the Santana-as-artist. For the moment it seems that he's forgotten the Mardi-Gras spirit that used to sweep his listeners along in the manner of a Carnival parade...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Mardi Gras, Gurus & Dragonflies | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

...plays one of those self-consciously dizzy L.A. types who are simultaneously into talent management, psychoanalysis, Eastern religion and dealing-that is to say, anything going. It turns out that a lot more than a cat is missing, of course. Before the picture ends, several lives are colorfully mislaid and a good deal of expensive stolen property is shuffled from hand to hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fresh Eye | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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