Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere 20 lbs.-just right for a banker's briefcase. The FBI believed too that the thief had deliberately ripped off an even $1 million, knowing full well that bank officers would waste precious time attributing the loss to an accounting error. They just could not believe the yawning cavity amid the remaining bundles on the cart...
...these philosophical abstractions were the only alternative to ethnic identification that Patterson offered, it could easily be argued that he commits the same error for which he attacks the ethnicity advocates--naively embracing an ideal while ignoring the structural social constraints that keep most of the world's people from realizing...
...second error only became a "mistake," which according to Schorr's definition of the term is "anything that turns out badly and leads to misunderstanding," after a New York Times editorial criticized him for "Selling Secrets." While Schorr himself accepted no money from the Village Voice in exchange for the document, he did ask the publisher to donate to the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press any money that Schorr would have received as a result of its publication. The Times pounced on this deal, decrying it as "commercial traffic in such documents...an attempt to launder...
...Huppert's performance as the heroine. Freckle-faced and slightly withdrawn, this actress creates an appealing young woman who is finally done in by her inability to articulate her feelings. The erudite null dismisses Pomme because he mistakes her silence for ignorance, and, lest we make the same error, the movie ends with the damaged and deserted Pomme staring accusingly at the audience. It is a devastating denouement?the kind we expect from heartbreak movies ?but it is not pity for the proverbial jilted heroine that is disturbing. What Goretta forces us to confront...
Just minutes later, Brown capitalized on an error by the temporarilty-deflated Crimson defense to score the game-winner. The Bruins' Tom O'Brien came swooping in alone down the left side, and when Herold came out to stop the breakaway, O'Brien crossed the ball to superstar Peter von Beek, who tapped it into the empty net to put Brown ahead to stay...