Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...students learned quickly that Academy Homes' two sections, one fronting on Washington ST. and the other on Codman Park, fought like mismatched neighbors. "We wanted a diverse group and we thought we could get it just by knocking on doors," Parrette said, adding "We were wrong. We'd knock on doors at Codman Park and the people would say "Sure, our kid can be in the program--as long as you don't let anyone in from over there.'" But persistence paid off for the volunteers, who chose 45 children and officially launched the program...
THERE ARE PUBLIC FIGURES whose magnetism attracts all the uncharged particles of hostility in the world and gives them a direction. For some, David Bowie is everything that is wrong with '70s youth culture--the noise, the drugs, the posing--presented as an orange-haired, made-up androgyne. His dabbling beyond pop music simply stretched his dilettantism further than anyone else's, and the dissipated exile he played in The Man Who Fell to Earth sitting drunk at poolside in the film's final scene seemed his logical resting place. To at least one defender of high kultur writing...
...careful who you pick up," Arthur says as he surveys the man's retreating reflection in the rear-view mirror. Arthur takes another drag of his cigarette. "If that first cab hadn't offered the guy a fare, then I wouldn't either. Something would've been wrong. You got to protect yourself...
...four up there. Then, about six months later, I was waiting outside the Kennedy School and who should jump in my cab but this guy. So I took the check and turned around and said, 'Hello Joseph, how you doing?' He looked at me, and I said, 'What's wrong, don't you remember me? Don't you remember this check?' He put on his glasses and looked at the check and told me that account had been dead for about five years. I told him he'd passed me that check. So he takes out his wallet and hands...
...ombudsman will "centralize the responsibility for where to go when something goes wrong," Councilor David Sullivan, who sponsored the ordinance, said last night...