Word: mistakenness
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...brave theme for a movie to take up these days, especially for one that might like to be mistaken for a summer comedy. Nothing in Common never settles into a self-confident stride, but it does dislocate, discomfit. You might remember it after a lot of less edgy films have been forgotten...
...stopped filming for weeks at a time while he sought inspiration. For one important scene, in which Chaplin's Little Tramp first meets the blind flower seller, he shoots for weeks, groping in vain for a way to convey a crucial piece of plot information: the girl has mistaken the tramp for a rich man. Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more idea: a limousine door slams shut, and the girl assumes the tramp is its owner. At last, the sequence works; perfectionism is repaid...
...woman Pope (who was found out when she gave birth while trying to mount a horse) to a 13th century work called the Universal Chronicle of Metz. The only Pope who never existed even in legend was John XX, whose nonexistence apparently occurred because John XXI (1276-77) was mistaken about the number of his predecessors. John was a bookish type who ordered a special cell built for his studies; his reign was cut short when the ceiling fell...
Smaller plastic items are frequently mistaken for prey by turtles and birds, often with fatal results. Leatherback turtles, which feast on jellyfish, are particularly attracted to plastic bags. Says University of Florida Zoologist Archie Carr, an authority on sea turtles: "Any kind of film or semitranslucent material appears to look like jellyfish to them." Trouble is, the bags--or other plastic items like golf tees--can form a lethal plug in the turtle's digestive tract...
...account in the Cayman Islands. At that point SEC officials froze Levine's accounts and, along with U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, filed charges against him in Manhattan. Said the SEC's Lynch: "It demonstrates that people who think they can violate federal securities laws by using foreign accounts are mistaken...