Word: mistakenness
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...liked to believe," says Hardy, "that the younger generation growing up would transform the situation until a Leningrad writer told me: That's where you are wrong. [The older neo-Stalinists] are dreadfully mistaken, but you can struggle against them because they believe in something. The younger ones coming up believe in nothing-except their own power and privilege.' It is a bleak thought, the older bureaucrats poisoned with Stalinism, the younger with cynicism...
...other ladies' shoes out the window. She was married only once-briefly, to Actor John Emery-but took a legion of lovers and gleefully admitted: "I'm as pure as the driven slush." Columnists were forever sniping at her and getting blasted right back. "Are you ever mistaken for a man on the phone?" Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson asked her. "No," she rasped. "Are you?" Yet some of her best lines were about herself. "They used to shoot Shirley Temple through gauze. They ought to shoot me through linoleum," she said, while making up for a movie late...
Zinn has decided that he can ignore Oliver Cromwell's eloquent plea: "In the bowels of Christ, I beseech you, bethink you that you may be mistaken...
Noon and Night play it safer and softer. Terrence McNally redoes French farce à la Grove Press in a play where all the vice is versa. A heterosexual is mistaken for a homosexual, a pair of mild Babbitts turn out to be, in tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging...
...mercifully honored us with only five songs, indistinguishable from one another with the exception of The Porpoise Song which has been on the radio for 41/2 months. The director plainly aspires to TV commercials and thinks he's got a line on how to be Richard Lester. He's mistaken. The film's distinguishing trait is its unbelievable paranoia: the plotless action has The Monkees chased, separated, persecuted, imprisoned, ignored, shot at, busted, spyed upon, abandoned, attacked, starved, crated, drowned, dropped from great heights, shrunk, crushed, disbelieved, stripped, transfigured, and generally much maligned. Head earns the prize for Biggest DOWN...