Word: mistakenness
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Still, Imbruglia will probably never be mistaken for a singer-songwriter. Although she's credited with co-writing most of Left's songs, the album was born with a battery of producers in attendance, including Nigel Godrich of Radiohead, and former Cure bassist Phil Thornalley. Nor will Imbruglia score points for originality. Most of the album's songs sound as if they had been ripped right out of Morissette's songbook. A few do hit the pop bull's-eye. Intuition and Torn start off sweetly and gather into cloudbursts of righteous rage, touching on jealousy, infatuation...
...Lewis Grossberger's amusing commentary [ESSAY, March 23] on the mistaken announcement by astronomers that a "Giant Killer Asteroid" is streaking toward Earth: Wouldn't it be great if more people agreed with Grossberger that we earthlings have really not accomplished much and "the end of civilization as we know it isn't such a bad idea"? We could take his advice and issue press releases saying, "Hey, we gave it our best shot, but we really weren't up to this existence business. So, we're outta here." Deep inside, you know who you are. ALAN REID Abbeydale, England...
...reporters were waiting at the door of her Washington Square apartment. "The story is over," she said simply, assuming that her words and opinions would no longer be of interest once her husband was dead and she was no longer First Lady. She could not have been more mistaken. As the years have passed, Eleanor Roosevelt's influence and stature have continued to grow. Today she remains a powerful inspiration to leaders in both the civil rights and women's movements...
...hands on still more of the vast wealth of Russia. During Yeltsin's most recent illness, they had begun to act as if his reign had ended and he didn't have to be taken into account. Yeltsin knew that. Now the schemers know they were mistaken...
...that the author has long since dropped dead, that no amount of careful study of words will get us any closer to the author's original meaning and that we might as well cut our losses and learn about ourselves. Ruskin might respond that these folks are not only mistaken, but proud besides. They ought to know their places; they ought to read to hear what experts have...