Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Genghis Khan sat with his Mongol comrades-in-arms debating the question, What is life's sweetest pleasure? One man ventured that it surely was falconry. Genghis Khan -- who was not Genghis Khan for nothing -- answered, "You are mistaken. Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt...
...raise his sitcom work above the level of stereotype. In one Martin episode Lawrence is in a shoe store when a white customer mistakes him for a store employee. "I don't work here," he says, with the disgust that many professional blacks have felt when they are mistaken for the help. When Lawrence invites friends over to watch boxing, he sports a FREE MIKE TYSON T shirt. All this material is part of the reason Martin won an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award...
China's advantage lies in its own internal structure. From the point of view of the West, China consists of a homogeneous mass of land and people. Though this impression is a mistaken one, China has managed to defuse the issue of national identity--all of its provinces are controlled by Beijing as anonymous entities. In contrast, the Soviet Union was perpetually weakened by its scores of `secondary' nationalities and the republics' tendencies to hoard their own resources...
...position by Jamie Billett on Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's raucous claim that gays "undermine civilization" (Crimson, Oct. 22) is quaint but sadly mistaken...
...shareof the down payment, the idea dawns on him that ifLee were to get married he could keep the alimonymoney for himself. Gus' inept but supposedlyhumorous matchmaking occupies the core of themovie. When Gus is first persuading Lee to consentto a date which he sets up, he is mistaken by awoman in the park for 'Mr. Wonderful,' a man froma matchmaking ad whom she, ('Funny Face'), waswaiting to meet. The film takes its name from thiscutesy, artificial scene, and perhaps rightly so,for the meandering plot and cloying writing onlybecome more obvious as the film progresses...