Word: mistakenness
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...from Sally's bag and puts it in a box. The child is then asked where Sally will look for the marble when she returns. Three-year-olds will point to the box, because that is where the marble is; but four-year-olds understand that Sally has the mistaken belief that the marble is still in her bag and that she will look for it there...
Robert Rodriguez, the film's writer, director, co-producer and editor, describes his action comedy -- about a singer-guitarist mistaken in a Mexican border town for a killer who totes his artillery in a guitar case -- as "a taco Western." We'd call it a rough, funny Mad Mex. Now all Hollywood is calling Rodriguez because Columbia Pictures is distributing his movie. Not bad for a 24-year-old who raised nearly half the film's budget (okay, $3,000) by serving as a "lab rat" in a medical-research project in his hometown of Austin, Texas...
...ongoing comedy of errors and mistaken identities results in stylized mayhem and confusion in the palace. Clever cross-gender casting by director Billy Hulkower adds an uproarious touch, furnishing an endless supply of thoroughly silly, but funny, gags...
...when a Wigglesworth resident said he had not even been informed of the meeting at which the vote was held, and Fine admitted to having been responsible for door-dropping in the student's dorm. Decaro concluded that, "either one of you is lying or one of you is mistaken." When I talked to Boyle, she was more convinced. "I'm sure they did it; I can't prove it, but I wouldn't put that past them," she said...
Anyone who thinks that habitual use of the Clintonic mood poses only distant and highly abstract dangers is sorely mistaken. Al Gore '69 is, of course, a robot, and as such relies on traditional logic circuits...