Word: misstepped
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...melodies of “Courtesans” renders it an unremarkable finish to a remarkable comeback album. “Zombie Boy,” for all its weirdo-appeal, is choppy and dumb, and a second listening doesn’t pay off. Perhaps the most glaring misstep with “Distortion” is that it continues Merritt’s obsession with the concept album: his commitment to an explicit theme can hinder as much as it enhances. “Mr. Mistletoe” may be a genuinely Christmas-y tune at its core...
...something other than flash her pearly whites for CNN. In this era of personality politics, elections have devolved into debutante balls where composure and conformity win the day. The media’s obsession with minutiae like laughs and wardrobe choices guarantees that even the tiniest misstep will be recorded, documented, and analyzed by Wonkette et al. It’s no wonder that campaign managers have become savvy calculators of risk micro-management. All this tiptoeing around really means, however, is that at the ballot box we’ll be forced to choose between two equally shallow cardboard...
...only Division I conference without a playoff tournament, the Ivy League awards its only automatic NCAA bid to the winner of the regular season.One loss, one small misstep in league play could mean the end to any postseason hopes...
Voting trends aside, the Sundquist-Sarafa campaign almost had a little less to worry about today because of an opponent’s apparent misstep...
...1970s, with high-profile political assassinations and the Vietnam War, Kennedy School professors said. Barbara Kellerman, a former director at the Center, said leaders face a difficult audience, citing Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation from the University presidency last year. “When Summers made his last misstep, people just rose up against him. The days of leaders being immune to criticism are over,” said Kellerman, the author of “Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters.” Ronald A. Heifetz, the center’s founding...