Word: blundered
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...could both Bonn and Washington blunder into such a degrading fuss over an event that was intended to be a moving, soothing and mutually constructive experience? The origins go back more than a year ago, when plans for the observance of the Normandy invasion anniversary were carefully worked out by officials in Washington, London and Paris. Kohl was not invited to participate, since this was seen as a celebration of the wartime victory over the Germans rather than a time for the victor to join hands with the vanquished. Kohl was miffed, and his resentment lingered. When it turned...
...What brings on the fever is that while wagging his finger, he bungles the facts. In some cases, he matches blunder-for-blunder the press corps sins that he's cataloging, mirroring precisely the things he likes least about the press. He cherry picks facts to fit his theories about how the press cherry picks facts to fit their theories. He is relentlessly negative about a press corps he claims is relentlessly negative. Unfortunately, it makes for a misleading revisitation of how the press and the President interacted during his tenure, and it undermines many of his larger criticism...
...republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast, my mouth would fill with saliva," he confesses...
...companies, of course, have long seen this coming. Mattel attempted to get into educational software in the late 1990s, spending $3.6 billion to buy the Learning Company. But "Mattel just didn't understand the software business," says analyst Gikas. The blunder led to more than $400 million in losses and cost then CEO Jill Barad, who had revived Barbie, her job. Under CEO Robert Eckert, Mattel got back to building basic brands like Barbie and Hot Wheels. But Barbie's sales slump--domestically down 21% this year through September--may also be a victim of kids growing older at younger...
...Miramax Films. Miramax is so impressed with Troy’s screenplay, The Boondock Saints, that they offer Troy the chance to direct the film with a huge budget and create its soundtrack using music performed by his band. Sitting on top of the world, Troy manages to commit blunder after blunder, mishandling negotiations and alienating his supporters. He eventually loses his deal with Miramax and becomes a pariah in Hollywood. The movie’s biggest strength is Troy Duffy’s cinematic personality. He alternates between bouts of cruel anger and drunken happiness, while maintaining a deathless...