Word: mistakenness
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...weekend at a cabin on Lake Arrowhead, are taking their son Collin, 6, with them on tour this summer. Carnes in concert will be trying on the new romanticism for size, promoting her fresh-minted image as a sort of upscale Debbie Harry. "The title of my album Mistaken Identity is really a statement of the direction I want to go," she explains. That does not mean she wants to be misunderstood but rather that she feels she has been misunderstood for too long. "Last year every one pegged me as a country singer because Kenny is. But I want...
...partner in Eyes is (natch) a great beauty, but also (surprise) an archaeologist. Though Melinda (Carol Bouquet) has the annoying habit of never moving her lips when she speaks, she does contribute handsomely to the doings in of the evilsowers. And I even detected--though this may be a mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though he may come back robustly in Octupussy. With the Reagan era upon the world, Bond may soon return to the damsel-in-distress mode...
Epstein and Mark Leib, who translated the play, have gone back over every line and scene of the original text, delicately excising those barbs that are simply too topical to appreciate two centuries later but leaving intact the many strands of Beaumarchais' plot. Figaro moves through its intrigues and mistaken identities in a vast double action to teach both the sluggish-witted Count Almaviva and his valet Figaro the uselessness of scheming the pointlessness of jealousy. When Mozart unleashed his inventive genius on the play, these were the themes he focused on, and his opera manipulates musical and dramatic structures...
...showing results, according to China's Xinhua News Agency. Some buses in Peking proudly display a yellow windshield strip designating "polite service." Store clerks are now encouraged to smile and refrain from snapping "see for yourself" at customers. Even some police, reports Xinhua, have begun to acknowledge "the mistaken idea that since they represent the proletarian dictatorship, they have a right to shout at people." From now on they will no longer yell "hey you" at traffic violators; perhaps it will be a polite...
Eicher, who is divorced, still fuels up on yogurt and black coffee but does not go to many jazz clubs these days, although his Munich digs might be mistaken for the apartment of an affluent student. The place is crammed with books and records, but Eicher recently declined to spend $20,000 for a Josef Albers oil. He did not have the room for it, he said. Besides, the next time he is recording in Oslo, he can always go look at a Munch...