Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dictate to the industry as it did in the past, a humbled IBM must now accept its role as just another player. To its credit, IBM appears to be doing exactly that. Although it is coming off what can best be described as an annus horribilis, rivals would be mistaken to underestimate this company in the future. If it can overcome the enormous challenge of becoming leaner and more responsive to shifting demands, and if it can anticipate the next technological wave rather than resist it, Big Blue still has the potential to be a market monster once again...
...Sullivan's version, the man mistaken for an inspector is actually a computer wonk turned would-be actor. Aggressively talentless, he is nonetheless welcomed into the panicky troupe and cast as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The play's finale, a catastrophic Christmas Carol that is the funniest scene on any American stage this year, echoes the uproarious mangling of Romeo and Juliet in Nicholas Nickleby. Props and gimmicks fail. The set collapses. One actor forgets all his lines in terror. And Tiny Tim, played all through rehearsals by a plump pubescent brat who has held the role...
...plot of The Mikado, as always with Gilbert and Sullivan, is hopelessly convoluted. Suffice it to say that a mistaken identity/revealed identity/unlucky (but ultimately happy) couple formulation is, with some deviations, followed...
...brought in the customers? Well, Coulouras says that while the restaurant is sometimes mistaken for a florist's, it's never mistaken for an official Harvard establishment...
...Vietnam. Although the materials Brown (code-named Druid Smoke) eventually delivered in many cases duplicated Schweitzer's, the two sources confirmed each other. "Anyone who thinks there's a big museum in Hanoi where you can back up a C-130 and answer all the POW/MIA questions is mistaken," said Schweitzer...