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Word: mistakenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point, Akouk and his lawyer have denied his involvement in the crime, saying this is a case of mistaken identity...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alleged B.U. Rapist Released on Bail | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Dick Van Dyke Show to The Larry Sanders Show, the current mirror gazing is not just more insider-oriented but harsher. Rob Petrie's foibles were along the lines of tripping over the ottoman, not buying a $250,000 screenplay from "the wrong Jew" in a case of mistaken identity, as Jay Mohr's smarmily obnoxious producer, Peter Dragon, does in Action's pilot. Beggars, a sharp satire set at the fictional bottom-tier network LGT, updates Network for broadcast's era of decline. Action and Beggars compare show business, unfavorably, with prostitution and the Mob. Meanwhile, the clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mirror Images | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...town's part-time mayor, doesn't care for the film's subject matter--"When it comes to witchcraft, we're a Christian community"--but is savvy enough to have ordered up a town website to set the record straight. Other locals see Blair Witch as a kind of mistaken-identity comedy. "Everybody's kind of laughing," says Robin Goetz, a library clerk. "Why, no one could get lost in our woods. All you'd have to do to get out is walk down toward the farm property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Town: Welcome to Burkittsville | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...find yourself resisting the vulgar over-simplification of this comparison, it is my writer's luxury to pre-empt you with the information that you are being mistaken, and worse, typical. The reason it doesn't seem wrong to comb a strange country gathering email addresses you will never in good honesty use is because you have already set that time period aside as an anomaly in the normal flow of your life. But while your rules are altered, your conduct is aligned with the way you have always lived, whether you will admit...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Forget Me Not, For The Time Being | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Miriam and Beth Goldstein are used to being mistaken for one another. At times, the twins have been able to take advantage of their physical similarity. They talk about a time when they shared the same gym membership during the summer in their home in Israel...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldsteins Find New Paths, Old Friends | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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