Word: confusionism
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Rumors, confusion and anxiety gripped Moscow so intensely last week that his Kremlin handlers just had to produce a live Boris Yeltsin. The President of Russia had not been seen publicly since his alarmingly inarticulate inaugural oath of office on Aug. 9, while all manner of confounding events were convulsing...
For most people, this would not amount to a show of vitality. For Yeltsin it served as a reminder of his remarkable ability to bounce back from near-death experiences--both physical and political. The photo session put to rest questions about his whereabouts, although the true condition of the...
It's not the partisan nature of the event that bothers me. If it were the Democrats, the confusion would likely be the same or worse, since Democratic conventions are traditionally larger than Republican ones--a symbolic statement, no doubt, about the parties' respective beliefs about the proper size of...
The comic conceit of the confusion caused by look-alikes has been used everywhere from Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors to "The Patty Duke Show" to "Parent Trap." But the technology in "Multiplicity" is seamless, and Keaton does a good job of giving each of his xeroxes a distinct...
In the confusion of a nighttime armored battle during the Gulf War, Lieut. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) unleashes that bitterest irony (and reality) of modern warfare--friendly fire--and destroys one of his own tanks, killing his best friend.