Word: misreadings
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...manager. Their unfortunate decision to use fictitious after-work jaunts with Bob's socially inept coworker William Detweiller (Kirk Hanson '99) and his wife Mary (Erica Rabbit '00) as a means of covering up their late-night meetings leads to a sequence of embarrassing dinner parties, misread signals, and confused assumptions on the part of almost everyone involved. Place all of this on a bi-level stage that shows both the Phillips and Foster homes at once and you'll begin to understand just what Aristotle would have been so upset about...
...lead as the remaining 11 boats set out for Cape Horn and Uruguay. Hoping to gain time, Autissier opted for a southern route through what navigators call the Screaming 50s because of the violence of the seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME via satellite. "The compartment was full of oil and diesel, and water was everywhere." Still, she dared not risk abandoning ship...
...they misread Disney. In his dark and brilliant Pinocchio and the hugely ambitious Fantasia, he would stretch technique to the limits. But the latter film, rich as it was in unforgettable animation, is also full of banalities. It exposed the fact that, as film historian David Thomson says, "his prettiness had no core or heart...
...used to support Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad because he dared to do things contrary to popular belief, making Malaysia a force to be reckoned with [BUSINESS, Oct. 12]. But like a cat cornered in a cage, Mahathir has turned into a belligerent and cruel dictator. He seriously misread the Malaysian public in trying to get rid of his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, by unjust means. Many of us had backed Mahathir because Anwar supported him, and we waited patiently with Anwar for a peaceful transition of power between the two men. But now such a thing is no longer...
...When they admitted responsibility for the attack Tuesday, the Real IRA insisted so many people died in the predominantly Catholic town because the police misread their warnings. Not so, said Tony Blair, and the British prime minister promptly released an audio tape of the group's first phone call to a Belfast TV station. "There's a bomb, courthouse," it says. In the event, people evacuated from the courthouse were led directly into the street where the car bomb stood. TIME London Bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says it is quite possible that the terrorists intended to target the courthouse, "drove...