Word: mistakenness
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Gomez's decision not to make the movie with Perry and Depp should not be mistaken for anything like "artistic integrity." Gomez is proud of the neighborhoods in which he grew up--in and around Somerville. But while he is interested in portraying life in down-and-out (mostly white) neighborhoods like the Brooklyn area in which "laws of Gravity" takes place, in no way does he profess to be a visionary or to be interested in art with a capital...
...abuse, a mother's custody of her newborn child might depend on a positive drug test, a notoriously imperfect procedure. Twice in the past three years, New York Judges have removed children at birth after the mother tested positive for drugs, only to find later that they were mistaken...
...hostility of their hosts. At the turn of the century, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was worried that East European immigrants labored under a "Byzantine" inheritance that would make them inimical to republican rule. Sixty years earlier, Protestant mobs burned Irish Catholic churches. The Senator and the rioters were both mistaken in their fears. Even blacks, the oldest and most abused American minority group, bear the marks of Americanization. Martin Luther King Jr. may have written about the influence on him of the teachings of Gandhi, but when he spoke, the texts he cited were the King James Bible, the Declaration...
...part, spent his time in bed with other women or at Belair, his beloved racing stable. Finally, on a chilly October night in 1955, after years of not-so-private misery, Ann picked up a custom-made shotgun and blew Billy's tiny brains out. She had mistaken him for a prowler who was, in fact, walking about on the roof at that moment. "There's only one worse thing Ann could have done," joked an acquaintance the day after the shooting. "She could have shot the horse." The horse happened to be Nashua, Belair's greatest winner...
...regulations: no phone calls or leaving their rooms without permission, no unauthorized food. Small wonder that each gymnast performed her routine, looked anxiously to her personal coach for feedback, then turned inward to focus on the next event. In Olympics of old, the stony- faced Americans might have been mistaken for Soviets...