Word: sic
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...piece, which refers to its author as"Rigor-Mortis Professor of Law," describespostmodern feminists as women who "don't wearmakeup,...wear all Black, because wHITE [sic] isthe color of mirth,...[and] wear good, comfortablewalking shoes...
...notes try to mask as a sophisticated eclecticism. The deconstructionist hodgepodge of arched and beams is neither especially effective nor lovely to look at. Furthermore, the disquietingly oblique references to "the architecture of I.M. Pei, the collections at the Louvre, two thousand years of Western religious tradition, Ptolomy's [sic] astrological maps, the sculpture of Noguchi..." disperse the attention and cannot make up for the producers' failure to face the opera and its performance tradition, making an informed (never mind inspired) reading...
...days later, exactly 100 places behind Tomba, Teruel takes off. As he glides down the course, the announcer welcomes "our first Philippinian ((sic)) racer" and changes his name to something unintelligible. Thousands of Italians waved flags for Tomba; when Teruel completes his run, he looks around for cheers and finds none. One French volunteer gives him a thumbs-up sign and two others clap. Spectators in the stands by now are as rare as daisies in the snow. The photographers have gone off for lunch, and the TV crews are preparing their Tomba stories. Still, the man now in 85th...
...syndicated, 2/7/92) The clear winner in this month's advice column war, Dr. John De Jong answers an inquiry by one "N.H." "I have an embarrassing problem with my dog: When she sees an [sic] Hispanic or black person she goes into a frenzy. Why is that? I never taught her that and never trained her to be an attack dog. . . . I can't understand it. I myself am not a racist and I'm also a person of minority." A few paragraphs later, N.H. asks bluntly, "Is my dog racist?" De Jong ensures N.H. that "your...
Note the four times that "sic" is used in the following paragraph. Could this "four sic" really mean "forensic," an oblique reference to the Kennedy autopsy report which has been suppressed by the military-industrial-Lampoon-CIA-FBI-Cuban-Communist-AALARM-LBJ-Mafia-BCCI-Nixon-Rudenstine coup d'etat elite (a massive conspiracy organization which has seized control of our government and at this time consists of just about everyone except Oliver Stone, Jim Garrison, Kevin Costner and a few people in Dubuque...