Word: bewilderment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In his memoir, For the Record, former White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan wastes no time before dropping his biggest bombshell. "Because actions that would otherwise bewilder the reader cannot be understood in its absence," writes Regan in a foreword, "I have revealed in this book what was...
It was perhaps inevitable that Lauren would eventually try his hand in the challenging womenswear market, but his touch proved less sure there. His first tailored shirts for women, in 1971, were a success. Nonetheless, his initial attempt at a full line of womenswear in 1972, inspired partly by British...
Usually, all the plot intricacies and convolutions in a Stoppard play will bewilder the audience, sucking them into the Sysiphean task of figuring out the play. Stoppard's funny and impassioned dialogue demands some sort of response.
The airlines remain caught in a feverish scramble to innovate that can bewilder consumers. They juggle their routes constantly, adding a city where competition is light and dropping ones where an abundance of rivals has slashed profits. While airfares remain low on popular routes, elaborate restrictions apply, including penalties for...
The contradictions and paradoxes bewilder any one who tries to chart China's future. Chinese have synthesized insulin, flung satellites into space, made nuclear bombs ? yet do not supply their villages with adequate common matches. Baoshan, the huge new steel complex near Shanghai, is a state-of-the-art...