Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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LARRY HARDOON and BILL CODINHA--And now, the defenders of public virtue. In case anyone thinks the district attorney's office had the same motivation in protesting the showing as the women who gathered outside Quincy House, they are wrong. Codinha, the chief assistant DA, and Hardoon, an assistant DA charged with handling the Deep Throat case, considered the movie obscene--not sexist, not likely to lead to violence against women, but just plain dirty...
...million Frenchmen believe that they cannot be wrong...
...Jarrell wrote like an angel, it was often an avenging one. But the same fierce gaiety that could make him lethal also made him the most generous of praisers. He proselytized ardently for Whitman and Frost a generation ago, when both tended to be dismissed, or admired for the wrong reasons. He upbraided Auden for sometimes frittering away magnificent skills: "Auden's laundry list would be worth reading-I speak as one who's read it many times, all rhymed and metered." But Auden's best, he maintained in a review reprinted in this new collection...
...intact, reporting as fast and accurately as they could under the circumstances. Said NBC's Wallace, 32, son of CBS's Mike: "It was one of the most remarkable moments of my life." Almost forgotten in the euphoria was the fact that the networks had been dead wrong about Ronald Reagan's ticket mate for hours-and that they were not alone...
Peachum cannot flee this bunch fast enough; yet, pity the smug chuckler who patronizes this family: "You New York-Dutch-descended, probably wrong-Strauss-loving officer of some music society or civic uplift group," he snaps. "I'd like a peek at some of your Rorschachs, you old sofa-crack feeler, you. Slipping a palm furtively under cushions and into crevices as you fish for coins in other people's chairs in a fashion whose psychological symbolism is all too readily apparent, you cranny rummager, you wrong-Scarlatti admirer. You secretary-treasurer...