Word: myopia
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...suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) From this International Enquirer item, Hwang spun a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...
CINEMA Sylvester Stallone's Cliffhanger is a scary no-brainer. BOOKS Myopia mars a study of the politics of ivory in Africa...
...cruise business this year, much less 1999," snapped a reservations manager at Princess Cruises in Los Angeles. At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, bookings are not accepted beyond May 1993, and no thought has been given to fin-de-millenaire entertainment. But don't be discouraged by such myopia; things can change at the mere drop of an inquiry. In 1983 when the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City's Times Square was still under construction, screenwriter Ed Woodyard phoned to book a room for Dec. 31, 1999. A Marriott official divined the potential publicity bonanza in the request...
Having heard out the Greek Foreign Minister, I'm prepared to give him and Mitsotakis the benefit of the doubt on their motivation: they're not guilty of irredentism -- a desire to recover lands lost long ago -- but merely of paranoia and myopia. The situation has all the makings of tragedy, which Aristotle, another great Macedonian who was Alexander's teacher, defined as the result not of wickedness but of foolish pride...
...would propel women to power. "That was an improbable victory," says veteran feminist Betty Friedan, "so now it seems like an augury of things to come." But was it? Braun, a strong supporter of abortion rights, owed her victory less to women's anger than to the arrogance and myopia of her rivals. Both Dixon and challenger Al Hofeld, a lawyer, found Braun so insignificant -- perhaps because she was a woman, perhaps because she was black -- that they ignored her. While they knocked each other out, she finished first with 38% of the vote...