Word: confusionism
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We open in a Los Angeles karaoke parlor where a Japanese man is crooning Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. It's a weird image of cross-cultural confusion, but that's not the half of it. The video carrying the sing-along words is a Japanese version...
Smith has sexual and material lures thrown at him from all sides, but far more troubling is the temptation to just give up in the face of an ingenious and seemingly unbeatable foe. Snipes portrays Smith's turmoil, confusion and anger in a manner which is constantly believable and consistently...
The U.N. report carefully observes that these migrants are not refugees, though there is considerable confusion on this issue. The word refugee is used regularly -- but mistakenly -- to describe anyone driven to leave home for any reason. But most national governments and international organizations recognize as refugees only those who...
His report from the edge indicates that today's stargazers are on the verge of yet another breakthrough in understanding. Or at least a higher confusion. Until the late '70s it was assumed that matter is distributed more or less evenly through deep space. Lemonick listens attentively to new hypotheses...
After a while, though, you'll enjoy it. Instead of a feeling of confusion, you'll have a feeling of newness, of rediscovery. You'll look forward to the culture shock as a break from normal life, a time to notice things you normally take for granted or pass on...