At a "disconnecting ceremony" this morning, Nobuo Hoshino, mayor of Kokubunji, one of the cities that refused to take part, said to television cameras, "Residents are sending us their views by e-mail, fax and various other ways, and almost all of them support us".
He's evidently meant as a kind of Greek chorus, or perhaps a Faulknerian wise fool à la Benjy in "The Sound and the Fury," but what he says is at such a disconnect from the rest of the narrative that he seems to have wandered in from another play.
"I think there's been, at times, a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president and the way some of you perhaps see the president," Mr. Scaramucci said during a news conference that kicked off with his announcement of Ms. Sanders's new job.
"I said during the transition, and I'll say it up here, I think there has been at times a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president, and the way some of you perhaps see the president," said Scaramucci. "I love the president.
The politician then asked readers to consider "how we arrived at such a disconnect between our ideals, our values, the reality of our lives," arguing against the "cynical exploitation of nativism and fear" that drives distorted narratives on immigration.
So perhaps a better move is to show it to everyone else in the hope that at some point, a disconnect of this magnitude will translate into a call for the regime shift in economic policy that is necessary to reverse it.
"I think there is a little bit of a disconnect at present".
Institutional Shareholder Services noted there was a "disconnect" at the company between performance and executive pay.
This program does not come cheap, which is something of a disconnect at a time of severe government cutbacks in arts financing here.
