Word: mislaid
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...audience - by storm. In addition to singing a hypnotic "The Rose" she brought on Spector chanteuse Darlene Love to duet with her on "He's a Rebel" and deliver a powerhouse "River Deep Mountain High." If anyone had given Midler the new party line on safe humor, she had mislaid the instructions, and she interpolated her singing with her trademark Sophie Tucker-esque one-liners. a cascade of ribaldry uncontaminated by PC concerns. One sensed the audience straining to gauge the reactions of the Gores and Liebermans to the jokes, rather like the nervous glances young adults take at their...
...punning title may bring to mind Augustan seriousness, but Bridget continues to radiate glorious energy, and that sheer energy propels The Edge of Reason. Like Austen's Emma (it's hard to avoid referencing Austen when a novel includes elements such as the aforementioned Darcy, the scheming Rebecca and mislaid letters), a large part of the book's humor derives in part from the deluded conviction of a heroine who 'knows' what should be done in love. Bridget's precepts come humorously from her new source of inspiration, self-help books ("a new form of religion") and Fielding's description...
...issue will be framed differently. We are obsessed with privacy because we have temporarily mislaid a more important word: dignity. We talk about our "right to privacy," but we don't really mean it. This broken-down, ramshackle idea falls apart the moment you blow on it. Privacy to commit murder? To beat a wife or child? To abuse an animal? To counterfeit money? To be insane, refuse treatment and suffer never-endingly? Privacy is no absolute right; it is a nice little luxury when we can get it. Dignity is a necessity to fight for. And come 2025, life...
...worth between $22,000 (in weight) and $10 million (if bought by collectors.) This is the first case of its kind in Idaho, and it rests on whether the coins were lost, were abandoned or are buried treasure, in which case they should go to Corliss, or were merely mislaid, in which case they go to Wenner. Wouldn't it be easier just to divide them...
...director Alan J. Pakula's analogous strengths. Pakula (Klute, Presumed Innocent) develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, The Devil's Own suggests the skill may be only mislaid. Of course, it helps when you hire grownups...