Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safety beyond the barricades. Buford clambers over them to become one with the crowd -- one of the lads. He experiences perverse satisfaction on one occasion when he is included in the Red Brigade's order of battle. In the crowd riots at the World Cup in 1990 he is mistaken by the Italian police for a ringleader and beaten senseless. It is a punishing climax to an eight-year quest...
...wondered, could this tragedy happen to a good, clean-living, smart kid like me? Did this prove the basic impotence of individuals to determine their own fate? What would befall me next--jury duty? Mistaken arrest? Cardiac arrest...
...most frightening of Perot's characteristics is his tendency to use all his wealth and influence to conduct vendettas against those who cross him. Critics contend that on most occasions Perot is so convinced he is absolutely right that he believes those who oppose him are not just mistaken but evil, and feels perfectly justified in going after them hammer and tongs. Some examples...
...Canova sculptures of George Washington, naked as a jaybird, in the role of the classical pater patriae. Canova worked for politicians, princes, Popes and bankers, all of whom concurred that he was the modern Phidias. Now he is unloved, except by fans and specialists whose enthusiasm tends to be mistaken for some kind of fetishism. The mid-19th century shift to realism, away from the neoclassical ideal, did him in. The English taste for Canova, fulminated John Ruskin, only went to show the decadence of the upper classes -- cold, mincing, overidealized, boring...
...Looks Like You, She's No Lady (She's My Wife) and the antic, bluesy Here I Am, which won this country singer a 1989 Grammy. The wit, merging Larry Gatlin's folksy humor with Randy Newman's city sickness, cued you that Lovett was not to be mistaken for the losers in his Lone Star gothic laments...