Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Penn left the wrong guy open...
...Thought Police would rely on a ubiquitous "oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror" to keep the citizens of Oceania brainwashed and obedient: "The instrument (the television, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely." That prophecy turned out spectacularly wrong. TV, along with radio, computers, modems, copiers and fax machines, caused big trouble for Big Brother in 1989. Once the more repressive precincts of the global village were wired for glasnost, legions of little brothers whispered subversion in everyone...
...leaf or an ornithologically unidentifiable bird in Church's South American paintings; though they were all done back in his New York studio; every hair on the tiny llamas looks right. Yet those who thought Church's paintings of Cotopaxi were faithful to the primal scene of nature were wrong. They were more than faithful; they were, so to speak, ecstatic. Nobody could call the view of Cotopaxi dull, but when Church saw it in 1853, it completely lacked the palms, writhing creepers, streams and waterfalls he would later give it. "The big mountain," he wrote to a friend, "grimly...
They seemed to suggest that if we could all just understand that everyone had the story wrong and that we were blowing it way out of proportion, then, finally, they would be able to clear up this mess. Then we would all be one big happy family again. Neither they nor North House could be called sexist, and all this nastiness would go away...
...understand their anguish and impulse and sense of outrage, but that was wrong, unwise and counterproductive, and Dean Epps, whom I consider a friend to all and for whom I have always had the highest esteem, is right to denounce...