Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three years in Siberian prison camps, Writer Andrei Amalrik, 35, was looking forward to going home. In May he wrote his wife Gyusel in Moscow to say that he expected to be released on schedule later that month. He was mistaken. As soon as his term expired, Amalrik was rearrested and has now been sentenced to three more years for "fabrications defaming the Soviet state" -the same charge that produced his previous conviction. In protest, he has gone on a hunger strike. His friends fear for his life, since he is already in poor health from meningitis and years...
...referring to recent criticism of him as a subsidized apologist for the Soviet regime, he declared: "I am a writer, never was and never will be an official representative of my country." The week before, the tall, skinny poet had paid a visit to the Philippines, where he was mistaken for an American tourist by two U.S. sailors who wanted to know what state he was from. Said he: "I'm from Russia. It isn't an American state...
SUSAN Sontag's Brother Carl is so much more accomplished in every way than her earlier Duet for Cannibals that it is liable to be mistaken for a good film. It is not quite that. It is what you might better call an imitation of a good film, a kind of master forgery, the film equivalent of painting by numbers, the sort of product that looks all right until you stick it next to the real thing...
...lower-classes, trying to sell his coffee to the middle-classes, and getting nabbed by the upper-classes. (All three classes are misrepresented, I imagine. Like the whole human animal is misrepresented. Like this movie is a complete cartoon.) He has all these adventures on the way. He gets mistaken for a spy in an atomic research plant and gets tortured. Or he wanders into a medical center and has to escape from this mad scientist who's transplanting human heads onto pig bodies. Or he gets fished up by financiers who swindle him and hand him over...
...hush funds with Nixon's attorney Kalmbach. Was it Washington's Mayflower Hotel, as he had testified, even though Kalmbach had been registered on that date at the Statler Hilton? After some sparring, Dean, prompted by his lawyer, said that he often confused the two and could have been mistaken, since the Statler Hilton's coffee shop is called the Mayflower...