Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replicate his car endlessly on a production line, promote it and warrant it and tweak it around to create a little novelty each new model year, Tucker might have ended up running on empty, one of those corporate windbags booming the virtues of an individualism he has long since mislaid...
...self-abasing behavior is a phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
...interim, however, Rudolph seems to have mislaid his sense of humor, and Trouble in Mind is a walk on the dour side. The locale is "RainCity" (which is not going to please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld...
Orel Hershiser, a late bloomer mislaid for five years in the Dodger farm system, considers Gooden's primary talent "just the fact of how natural he can make himself feel in a stadium full of people. I've watched him, and I don't know whether he's any more natural when he's alone. The days I make it look easy when it wasn't easy are my proudest. But for him, I think it is easy. I just think he knows what he wants to be. If you don't know what you want to be, people...
...temporary period he may find himself rooting with Harvard so fellow students don't beat him up," says the elder Nordhaus. "His youthful mislaid enthusiasm will change...