Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tragedy all begin with premises that are numbingly familiar and wind up in ways that seem utterly new and unpredictable. Friends in the Country sends a couple out to a dinner party and deposits them in a sudden fog at what is almost certainly the wrong house, an isolated, spooky Victorian monstrosity; from then on, the mystery evolves into deciding who is crazier, the hosts or the uninvited guests. In the Act is a wickedly funny send-up of android sci-fi, featuring a voluptuous male-fantasy robot (named, naturally, Dolly) who is much nicer than any of the humans...
...have seriously underestimated the threat posed by the administration's new lottery plan and are pursuing the wrong strategies in fighting it. After all, the recently announced changes call for immediate--and radical--student action, not knock-kneed petitions...
...fact, Bush has the equation wrong. The United States clearly must finance the investments in productivity and human resources that the President seeks-it simply lacks the will to do so. Adhering to his "read my lips" campaign pledge, Bush adamantly refuses to consider a tax increase or even a value-added tax on consumption, or to tax costly, non-means based entitlement programs like Social Security for the wealthy. He also refuses to consider putting a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle-class, such as mortgage-interest deductions...
...call was between President Bush, who has promised his Administration will avoid even the "appearance" of wrong-doing; "ethics czar" C. Boyden Gray, who has been accused of violating ethics rules because he recently received money from his family business; and Secretary of Defense nominee John G. Tower, whom the Senate Armed Services Committee, headed by Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), refuses to confirm because of allegations of his drinking, womanizing, accepting illegal campaign contributions and consulting defense contractors after retiring from the Senate and the Armed Services Committee...
...Fame was the real qualifier. One doubts, somehow, that Warhol plowed through Faust before cranking out his flashy and unfelt variations on Tischbein's portrait of Goethe. No ideological motives lurk behind the benign collective visage of his innumerable Mao Zedongs; but a billion Chinese could no more be wrong about such a celebrity than 200 million Americans could be about Jackie or Marilyn...