Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because he hasn't been working or has lost his arch wit and narrative originality, but because commercial producers fear that his learned , tragicomedies demand too much of audiences intellectually and indulge them too little emotionally. Stoppard's Hapgood mingled a spy story, a love story, games of mistaken identity and reflections on physics, and has never had a major U.S. production. The same fate may well await his new play, although it is by far the best from any British writer in years...
...possibility of mistaken identity was one we were conscious of all the time," Ryan said yesterday. "We were never dealing with evidence that was totally comprehensive. And that's also a reason we never tried a case on eyewitness testimony alone...
...more tragic, and ironic, reasons for the recent upswing in child prostitution is the mistaken belief that young sex partners are less likely to have AIDS. In fact, the opposite may be true. "Both boys and girls are more vulnerable to infection because they are prone to lesions and injuries in sexual intercourse," says Dr. Pers-Anders Mardh, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uppsala, Sweden. "Imagine intercourse occurring millions of times under these conditions." The AIDS epidemic alone is enough to justify a crackdown on child prostitution, says Mardh. "There...
Jumbled among these elements is the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being Ivan the Terrible, the notorious Nazi guard at Treblinka. Roth attends the trial in the beginning to find Pipik, but he gets so caught up in the idea of mistaken identity that he begins to go out of sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West...
Maybe the tears would be better shed for local TV news. These Action and Eyewitness news gangs have never exactly been mistaken for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. But increasingly -- and especially during the ratings-sweeps months of November, February and May -- they are becoming little more than extensions of the network prime-time schedule. Stories that spin off network programming have been around for years, but now they are a depressing cottage industry. Networks alert stations to promotable programming and suggest possible tie- ins; stories done by one station are fed to a central network clearinghouse so that other affiliates...