Word: phantasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doyle told Hahs that Fuerloins was an adjunctprofessor joint appointed in the department ofphysics at Phantasm University...
Critics find the strategy puzzling, especially since the MIA issue is increasingly seen as a phantasm. Allegations that the Vietnamese withhold data have been all but discredited by a wave of assistance from Hanoi. Of the remaining 2,211 mias, the number who were last seen alive but have never been accounted for has dwindled from 196 to 55, and progress has been made in reducing the number of other outstanding priority cases. And although Vietnam has been deceitful in the past, U.S. officials have applauded its cooperation in the past year. "What can we be cheated on at this...
...posing as an opera singer and never 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.) Hwang spins 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...
...singer and never 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...
...phantasm that won't come true. Last week a coalition of federal and local law-enforcement officials in Los Angeles launched an assault on white supremacists, arresting eight people, including one adult and one unnamed juvenile who were implicated in the plot. Authorities said the suspects were affiliated with three white-power groups: Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the Church of the Creator, and a relatively new group called the Fourth Reich Skinheads. Among those taken into custody were Christian Gilbert Nadal, 35, a flight engineer for Continental Airlines and his wife Doris, 41, a real estate agent...