Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...first hint that something was wrong came in August, when dead dolphins -- victims of pneumonia and liver damage -- began washing up on Mediterranean beaches near Valencia, Spain. But until the past few weeks, no one had | realized the extent of the disaster. When scientists from European countries began comparing notes, it suddenly became clear that some sort of epidemic was raging through the striped dolphin population of the western Mediterranean Sea. In France, where dead dolphins usually wash ashore at a rate of about 50 a year, 50 were discovered in a two-week period, and the toll in Spain...
...arrogant technician, who in this case claims that the park's dinosaurs can't breed because all have been sterilized. And as usual there is a relentlessly cheerful p.r. man. He settles the question of what dinosaurs eat; one of the big carnivores eats him. Then things really go wrong. Dinosaurs, it develops, are much smarter and faster moving than the experts had thought...
...patients lie in the emergency room, beset by mysterious pains. When the ) doctor arrives, one patient asks, "What's wrong with me?" The other patient, who is an addict, pleads only, "Can you give me something for the pain?" The two questions come from different universes...
...Nothing wrong with that story or with a solid cast (headed by Armin Mueller- Stahl and Aidan Quinn). Why, then, does this movie set one's molars to grinding? Partly because it is impossible to imagine a Jewish family passing a half-century in America without encountering -- and railing against -- prejudice. Partly because the law of averages suggests that in a group this numerous there ought to be at least one mean, crazy, totally unassimilable figure. Somebody, in other words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert...
...nothing to wear is when all his shirts are at the laundry. There is something so enviously simple about male dressing: a suit, a shirt, a tie. Our notions of how these should look don't change much with the seasons, and barely with the generations. So how wrong can a man go? How unattractive can he feel...