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Disney has also had the occasional misstep in China. In 1996 Beijing blocked the company's films after Disney backed Martin Scorsese's Kundun, which dramatized the life of the Dalai Lama and China's invasion of Tibet. (Beijing considers Tibet an integral part of China.) Mulan, which tells the story of a girl who fought in the Chinese emperor's army in place of her crippled father, was originally rejected for showings in China. Hollywood executives saw that as retaliation for the political incorrectness of Kundun, but an anonymous Chinese official quoted by the country's Xinhua news agency...
Back in China, Deng, frequently living underground began a long series of political and military assignments for the Communists, that carried him gradually, if not always smoothly, to higher ranks. His earliest misstep, resulting in a brief period out of favor, was to ally himself with a party faction that favored basing the drive to power on rural rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time...
Life is surprising as it happens but remarkably predictable in retrospect. Once time has conferred its brand of wisdom, even the least perceptive person can look back and recognize how one misstep of fate led to another. Thus a hallmark of growing older is the increasing impact of memory, simultaneously spurring regret and reconciliation. Those conflicting impulses are at the heart of Michael Frayn's Benefactors. Its four characters, addressing the audience from the perspective of middle age, watch themselves in flashback as exuberantly misguided young adults. And although the play's nominal topics include high-rise architecture, neighborhood preservation...
...Loker is used ought to change, but the installation of a pub would be a misstep. The success of “Harvard Pub Nights,” which are held in Loker, should not indicate that the space should be transformed into a permanent pub. Rather, it indicates that these events should continue, while a more inclusive, permanent student space is created in the basement of Memorial Hall...
...important to emphasize that Saturday is not a slight misstep for McEwan but an almost complete failure. The stultifying prose surrounding his time in the surgery, the flimsiness of the characters, and the dull pacing of the narrative itself—unable to create real suspense surrounding even the most extreme of scenarios—conspire to sink Saturday like a lead balloon. It is perhaps no wonder then that McEwan was testy at his reading, snapping at the audience’s admittedly fatuous questions and reading a lengthy segment spanning each of the novel?...