Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psychodrama is that it resides simultaneously inside and outside Edna's pristine, pathetic mindscape, from her daft rapture over the perfectly made bed to the moment when she hears of her husband's infidelity and tears and saliva cascade down her face. Dancing in the Dark dares to be misunderstood as a case history; in fact, it is Heartburn with a haunting irregular heartbeat. It is also the yuppie date-movie nightmare. Men who see it with their spouses are advised to sneak out and buy some rubber cutlery...
Perhaps Bernstein will always be misunderstood by the Tom Wolfes of the world. Petty journalists will always be obsessed with the irony of designer clothing clad partiers making the Black Panther fist of protest, of political radicalism as a status symbol...
...Yale Women of the Ivy League offers no more than obscure references to puberty anxiety, body image and isolation. Except for two or three poems which do not deal with the anguished plight of womanhood, these women tell us that being female means being miserable, misled and misunderstood...
...students on campus support divestment. But further education is not going to change University policy. Educational activities ought to be geared toward generating support for the African National Congress (ANC), the South West African Peoples Organization and a variety of other resistance groups that are little known and oft misunderstood in the United States...
...friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated hand...