Word: puzzlements
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...could hardly blame the Russian for his puzzlement and anger; Berlinguer & Co. certainly do not talk like...
...crushed velvet tuxedos: the women looked like tennis club matrons and their escorts like croupiers. The teenies had come for Al Pacino, but he was in New York. Prodded by the eupeptic booming of the outside master of ceremonies, they stayed to squeal at Walter Matthau and (in some puzzlement) at the evening's representative of the muse of irony, Gore Vidal. When Elizabeth Taylor, almost the last survivor of the studio star system for which the Oscar ceremony had been created, appeared on the walkway, it was like the arrival of a galleon in a weekend fleet...
Perfect Foil. The left is still unable to figure out exactly how conservative Carter really is, but that puzzlement shrinks next to the threat of Jackson. Even within big labor, which is still mostly opposed to Carter, there are several liberal unions that take a favorable view of him. Bill Welsh, political director for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Union, believes that while Carter still has not passed the liberal test, he has found the perfect foil in Jackson...
...front of the camera, hearing the film whirring through its mechanisms." In between movies he goes off on solitary searches for some other kind of fulfillment. His eight-year marriage to Actress Livia Giampaolo raises as many doubts as it solves problems; his two young sons are a puzzlement as well as a joy. He has tried to paint, and had a one-man show of his abstracts in Milan that was successful. "Giancarlo," says Job, "has tried painting and come back...
...puzzlement must have quickly vanished at the start of the second stanza. A Wheaton guard grabbed a tip-off and swiftly drove down the court the wrong way, leaving nine startled players behind...