Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony, his protagonist's own version of his life and hard times. As he proved in Cabaret, he has a fine eye for the gritty details of the grimiest levels of show business, but here realism (the film is shot in grubby black and white) reinforces the mistaken belief that Fosse's account is the full truth about Lenny...
Some noted that the nanny bore a close resemblance to Lady Lucan, and there was speculation that the murderer, in the dark or in his anger, may have mistaken her for Lady Lucan, who then surprised him by suddenly appearing on the scene. Perhaps the only person who can clear matters up is Lord Lucan. At week's end he was still being sought, and there were rumors that he was either outside the country or had done "the honorable thing," as one of his friends phrased it, and had shot himself...
...Mistaken Identity...
...addition, investigations into the nature of revolutions indicate that Jencks is totally mistaken in attributing the existence of revolutions to educated refugees from the lower classes. Rather, it seems that the major leaders of past revolutions have been what Max Nomad, a student of revolutions, called "declasse intellectuals"--members of the upper class who have defected. In Crane Brinton's "Anatomy of Revolution"--a study of England's "Glorious Revolution," America's War of Independence, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution--he found in all cases that "an enzyme without which the revolution would have been impossible...
...unjustified" force, but, said Battisti, who acted before the defense had begun its case, "the Government has presented no evidence bearing directly on the intentions of [the] defendants who fired their weapons." He said that the evidence suggested that the "Guardsmen fired for any number of reasons, including the mistaken belief that an order to fire had been given, the fear that they were being fired upon, a desire to convince the mob to cease the barrage of rock throwing and general confusion." As a result, the parents and survivors can hope only for the token solace of damages...