Word: confusionism
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The piece recites a litany of atrocities committed in Kosovo, quoting them verbatim from a human rights report, without any explanation or interpretation. This does nothing to inform, enrage or sadden readers; it is instead a list of foreign-sounding names and places that would mean nothing to most readers...
"Plainly, your credibility is dented if people you said were dead show up alive three days later," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Clearly there have been a lot of false reports in the confusion of the first week's bombing." For example, KLA sources told German TV on Tuesday...
Like other dictators of this age, Milosevic makes these calculations in virtual isolation. He rarely appears in public, never travels anywhere. He nominally consults an inner circle of perhaps 15, but his only true adviser is his ambitious, neocommunist wife Mira Markovic. "His pride at being a guy everyone comes...
The songs on 13 have a sketchy, first-take feeling to them. On another album, this might be a good thing; it might transmit to the listener a sense of improvisatory immediacy. But here it evokes mostly confusion, as if the band hadn't quite worked out exactly how it...
The "who" turns out to be a point of some confusion.