Word: misreadings
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...airport. Mitch Greenberg, a former paramedic, was the man in the hot seat one recent Sunday, scanning the screens and barking into a microphone to deal with each security infraction-such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents-big weather problems as well as security breaches-the action shifts to the room next door, where a swat team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece pops up at the push of a button to give each participant a phone and computer...
...multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some of the awards - the fewer clunky jokes misread off the TelePrompTer, the better. (Sorry, Bruce Vilanch, but the statute of limitations on Anna Nicole Smith gags expired about five years...
Former and current colleagues say that the hopeful voices from the Right misread Summers’ moves...
...sticking our tongue out at our brother?s retreating back or insisting that we can make these cookies on our own, thanks very much, and no, we do not need help. (Later, of course, we feel grouchy when no one eats more than one cookie because we misread the recipe book and put in tablespoons of salt when it called for teaspoons...
NUSSEIBEH: It doesn?t need his approval. The best way to get things done is to just do them. People misread Arafat. He isn?t so controlling. We set up the council and if it works, he?ll be in favor...