Word: misstep
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...least, Murdoch has not made a misstep in quitting Fleet Street. Thatcher has praised him in the House of Commons, while opinion polls show little support for Dean and her followers. Unlike the miners, who attracted considerable sympathy during their strike, the printers are perceived by the public as overpaid and underworked. "Fleet Street is one of the great bastions of Luddism," observed a senior government official. "The print unions, which have rejected every attempt to adapt to the future, are now washed up on a very lonely shore...
...first misstep was choosing Beckett's Play as a filler piece. Richard's Cork Leg is a short play, but a more conventional stopgap than Beckett's artificial attachment might have been found for the Mainstage. Play uses a mere 10 square feet of the vast stage for 30 minutes. During this time, the only action is the motion of a followspot which reveals three actors mysteriously entombed in urns. For no apparent reason, they address the light as if it were in the process of tormenting them. Although the scenario is funny and somewhat chilling the first time through...
...inside top of my skull as a mortar." A native politely informs him, "You got drunks like a man who still lives in his mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks in the ground for foods." Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs a dry, self-deprecating style that cannot disguise the team's gifts for fresh and arresting description. Fenton calls the black- naped oriole "the flaming youth of the forest, the jeunesse d'or, the jungle glitterati." And O'Hanlon is chillingly adept at describing...
...Boston institution's misstep came to light when the bank pleaded guilty to a felony charge--failing to report huge cash shipments to nine foreign banks, primarily three in Switzerland. The Internal Revenue Service requires U.S. banks to file a report any time they make a cash transaction of $10,000 with an individual, company or foreign institution. Federal prosecutors say that during the past four years, First National received $529 million, mainly in small bills (weight: at least 20 tons), and sent out $690 million in bills generally of $100 or more...
...Bomby, as well as in The Plain Truth, a fundamentalist magazine, creationists argue the beetle could not possibly have evolved separate chambers of chemicals that, in the event of a genetic misstep, would have blown the insect up. A prominent member of the Institute for Creation Research, Duane Gish, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, contends the beetle would not have any use for its storage, temperature and aiming facilities until they were completely formed. Says he: "I would challenge Dr. Eisner to sketch out how an ordinary beetle could evolve into a bombardier...