Word: mis
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...general election research and planning, Kerry continued to focus exclusively on beating primary challengers he had already defeated. And when the inevitable March deluge of Bush-Cheney liberal/flip-flopper/weak-on-security ads swamped the airwaves, Kerry and company were caught unprepared—and are still forced to deal with those (mis)perceptions today...
...Justin Hall's comix series "True Travel Tales" (All Thumbs Press; 48 pages; $4), the third issue of which appeared a few months ago. Hall approaches travel writing from an unusual angle by adapting and illustrating other people's stories. The first two issues collected short, anecdotal tales of (mis)adventure. One story involves a young punk rocker on her way to San Francisco who, on a stop at Bryce Canyon, Utah, decides to clamber down the rock face rather than follow the "hippies" down the trail, to predictably disastrous results. In another a man cruises a fellow traveler...
...return to phantasmagorical form. Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel is a Victorian chiller with a twisted yet strangely hypnotic villain. If that doesn't sound familiar enough, the bad guy is played by Michael Crawford, the original Phantom. So high are hopes for this show that long-runner Les Misérables was evicted from the 1,400-seat Palace Theatre (proprietor: Lloyd Webber) to make way for his new lady. But she's not quite the date fans might have hoped for. It's not just expectation that weighs on the new show - Crawford appears in a fat suit that...
...Scandalous" MIS-TEEQ...
...Solid as a rock/How many ways can you hit the spot" over a lush, string-heavy track that is no less great for sounding as if it had been ripped off from Dr. Dre's studio. If the lyrics don't provide sufficient notice that subtlety is not Mis-Teeq's MO, then the blaring siren in the chorus should do the trick...