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...which she presumably means the working class. If Swept Away does reach a mass audience, as its current success suggests it may, no working class viewer will recognize its political intentions. He will only see a great love story reaffirming sexist roles, and in so doing he will not misread Wertmuller's true feelings...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Mediterranean Farce, Feminist Fiasco | 10/17/1975 | See Source »

...said that members of the conventions steering committee have misread his original platform statement if they have concluded that he changed his position since the convention...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Barber Eliminated From Council Slate Of Convention '75 | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...threats to our security, at least in their initial stages, will take nonmilitary form." As a prime example he offers the 1973 hike in oil prices by the OPEC nations, which he calls "a kind of economic Pearl Harbor in which warnings bearing on its imminence were either ignored, misread, or filed without reaching the officials responsible for action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Expanding the Mandate | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...their cause. But if there were to be another Arab-Israeli war, perhaps accompanied by a new oil embargo, the U.S. commitment that Israel has long taken for granted might be placed under severe strain. Some U.S. officials worry that at some future time, an Israeli government might misread a flare-up of anti-Israeli sentiment in the U.S. as a prelude to American abandonment and be tempted to launch a last attack while they still had American support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A Nation Sorely Besieged | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...Speaker Carl Albert is next in line of succession. But Ford felt an obligation to honor Nixon's promise to visit Japan some time this year. Moreover Ford had decided that he must make a brief side trip to South Korea to avoid what the North Koreans might misread as a calculated snub of Park. Beyond those considerations, Ford, who said last week that he would definitely run for election in his own right in 1976, had obviously decided that he had nothing to lose at home by traveling abroad. Only by acting as if he had a mandate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Ford Makes His First Foray Overseas | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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