Word: mistakenness
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...evening of Shakespeare feel like a final exam in Esperanto, and they allow the playgoer to focus on the emotional gaiety and bewilderment at the heart of the text. What could have been minimalist camp -- oh, Lord, men in pearls and blond wigs! -- becomes a sweet meditation on mistaken sexual appetites and identity...
...Stores were full of New Age pap and other mystical mush, but there were no books that would introduce young people to serious philosophy. By trying to blend fantasy with head-cracking summaries of deep thought, Gaarder feared that he had "sat down between two stools. But I was mistaken. Sophie's World fell on top of all the stools...
...Senate candidate Michael Huffingtonlaunched a blistering ad blitzand accused Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of "blatant lies" in connection with the now questionable claim that Feinstein employed an illegal alien in the early 1980s. The Huffington charges continued even though the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service admitted that it was mistaken in confirming a news report about the status of Feinstein's employee. Meanwhile, the housekeeper, Annabella Paiz, told The Associated Press that she was legal during her Feinstein stint. The allegations about Feinstein came a week after Huffington admitted that he employed an illegal alien as a nanny from...
That feeling of a sure and steady hand is what some have mistaken for complacency. But Clapton takes nothing for granted. You can hear him bend the low-key bravura of It Hurts Me Too into a plea as strong but uninsistent as a prayer. There may be something cosmopolitan about the blues on From the Cradle, but that quality doesn't come from spurious sophistication. It originates, rather, from some wider experience of the world and a consequent deeper sadness. It does not snarl. It whispers, the sound of a hard traveler halfway along a dark road...
However, don't be mistaken. Murphy claims Cornell is beatable, very beatable...