Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kingston has complained that critics, while generous, misread her work as being about China rather than America. Berkeley Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, the latest in a mob of adapters who have spent nearly two decades trying to find a dramatic idiom for Kingston's work, calls the central character "a troubled, gifted, 12-year-old American girl trapped in a petite Chinese body...
...option of reclaiming the nations Mikhail Gorbachev set free five years ago. But the effect is the same: Yeltsin now says enlarging NATO would be a hostile act. "We haven't a clue what that means exactly," says a senior Clinton Administration official, "but especially because we so completely misread Russia's recent elections -- we thought Yeltsin's forces would win soundly -- we're now more gun-shy than ever about substituting our judgment for his. Yeltsin's our guy. We're not going to undermine him with a policy of neocontainment that boosts the hard-line empire builders. Yeltsin...
...marked-up, highlighted and dog-eared copy of the legal writings of Lani Guinier. It was far too late for him to emerge undamaged from her nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, but he hoped to find that the views of his nominee had been misread. Gradually and reluctantly, he came to the conclusion that even if some of them had been, his beliefs and Guinier's could not be reconciled. When he huddled in late afternoon with top advisers, the question was no longer what to do but how to do it. Guinier, who had been...
...Misread Signs...
...Saddam expected to get away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...