Word: phantomed
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...gave everything an extra dimension. But what really got to me was the way Norm brought all that contemporary political stuff in. I mean, we all know the story's happening in Israel. So it's really a mind blower to see those Phantom jets roaring up in the sky, and Judas coming up over a sand dune between a couple of tanks. That's heavyweight...
...spends a restless night, still trying to define his moral and intellectual status, the city outside mobilizes for a possible military invasion. There are phantom images of guns being hauled up to roofs and tanks rumbling through the gray morning streets. It is the time of the missile crisis...
...well as musical highlights. Art Blakey amused the audience by running on and off stage carrying his cymbals as the fanatics pleaded for an encore. The height of weirdness came when a violinist with a shaved head and a black cape (name unknown--referred to merely as "The Phantom") lurked around the stage in the middle of the first number. His ostentatiousness led the other musicians to bar him from taking a solo in the second number...
...alcoholic crying for help. But because he is Alan Severance, who, he says, is suffering from severe delusions, Recovery poses a new turn of the proverbial screw. The novel projects itself so far into Berryman's personal reality that you are never sure if Severance isn't some unreal phantom of his self-deception...
...officials contended that there was nothing novel about the proposed sales, the ventures in both areas appeared to be reversals of longstanding policies. Conforming to the formally expressed wishes of Congress, the U.S. has not sold any sophisticated weapons in Latin America for five years. It has never supplied Phantoms to an Arab country. Though some have been sold to Iran, the Phantom has generally been regarded as a symbol of U.S. military aid to Israel...