Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even if the reports of the discovery of alien bacteria from Mars turn out to be mistaken, the enthusiasm developing in the wake of yesterday's announcement has some serious implications for the future of planetary research. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin asked for a "robust program of exploration" of Mars, and it seems he may get it. On Wednesday, President Clinton announced that the U.S. would follow up the discovery with international scientists at a space summit this November. Two unmanned probes blasting off for scientific missions to Mars this November and December will be followed by eight...
Alan Ayckbourn's book builds, with deft comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
...solid and stable government," he insisted. "Saudi Arabia's stability," says another senior official, "is always a concern, but the fact that this group resorted to terror, not a popular demonstration," indicates it is small and weak. Comparisons to Iran under the Shah, this official says, are mistaken. "There aren't large-scale demonstrations, a regime losing its will to govern or a vocal charismatic leader in exile...
...incendiary TV spot, then let the media spread the word. The industry needs the lift: sales of cases of distilled spirits, according to M. Shanken Communications, shrank from 190 million in 1980 to 135 million in 1995--a drop of 29%. Beer and wine marketers, meanwhile, exploiting the mistaken perception that their products contain less alcohol than distilled spirits, used such icons as Spuds MacKenzie and the Swedish Bikini Team to boost sales by even more than the distillers lost...
When Diana Krall strode from the wings at a recent tribute concert to saxophone great Benny Carter, the Carnegie Hall audience might have briefly wondered whether Sharon Stone had wandered onstage. Smashingly glamorous, with lavish golden hair and a smoldering glare, Krall could easily have been mistaken for a big-screen starlet. But appearances aside, the moment she launched into the opening notes of Carter's classic heartbreaker, Fresh Out of Love, it was clear that this compelling new singer has more in common with Ella Fitzgerald than with any Hollywood actress...