Word: mistakenness
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Heroin use is up among teens--up the nose. A study published this month concludes that 2% of 12th-graders have tried the drug, double the percentage who had in 1990. Apparently most are snorting it in the mistaken belief that inhaling it is less addictive than injecting it. Plus, heroin is cheap: average price has dropped two-thirds in this decade...
This ease of communication often leaves visitors with the mistaken impression that they and the natives are speaking the same language. This is not the case. Language at Home is in fact a complex dance of syntax and connotation. For example, a simple expression like "I see what you mean," when uttered by a local or tribal chieftain, may have a radically different meaning than when spoken by a person from a more developed area. In our native country, this phrase would ordinarily mean "I understand your ideas". If a local chief uses this phrase, however, it is more likely...
Aside from simple increased audience enjoyment, this need for enunciation is vital to any production of Gilbert and Sullivan: the story of the operetta, in true G. and S. style, is a convoluted tale of mistaken identities and star-crossed lovers that can only be understood when it is clearly and resoundingly sung by its main players. To summarize: it seems that years ago the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro had promised their daughter Casilda to an infant heir who was subsequently kidnapped but later found to be living as a gondolier in Venice. The operetta opens...
...pendants into neighborhoods; Black, Korean, Latino, White, "drawing the audience into the conflict," according to Chang. Though each drop is well conceived in its own right, the aesthetics clash fiercely against one another. One in pastels looks like Monet in Watts; another (depicting the poor black neighborhoods) could be mistaken for an Ade Bethune woodprint. The effect is intentionally distasteful. Like the dialogue, each neighborhood is beautiful in isolation to the others, but the combination is discordant...
...Sherman and crowed about it. At Lily Tulip he fired 50% of the corporate office; at Crown-Zellerbach, 20% of the work force; at Scott Paper, 11,000 employees. After firing 6,000 at Sunbeam, Chainsaw himself got axed by a pair of fire-breathing shareholders: Ronald Perelman, never mistaken for Mr. Congeniality, and Michael Price, a.k.a. the "scariest s.o.b. on Wall Street"--at least to CEOs...