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...million CDs sold to date) has meant far fewer puffy noses and sour faces. Previously, Nyman was best known for the music he wrote for the idiosyncratic director Peter Greenaway (The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) and for his own superb 1987 opera, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, based on Oliver Sacks' best-selling book about neurological disorders. On a recent tour of North America with his 10- piece chamber orchestra, the Michael Nyman Band, the 50-year-old composer drew hip audiences and packed houses for programs of his recent works, highlighted...
Coop attorney Robert M. Shea agrees that employees mistook the identity of Boateng, but says that it was an "innocent mistake...
...parents. After Mallory's father, played by Rodney Danger field, propositions her with, "Hey bitch, why don't we go up and take a shower together," there's offstage track laughter. When Mallory's mother tells her son that the only reason he was conceived was because his father mistook his own bed for Mallory's: laughter. The episode finally ends when Dangerfield's character is drowned in the family aquarium and her mother is tied to her bed and burned alive; it's funny. We see all too clearly the point Stone is attempting to make...
...Pentagon says "multiple human error" caused the friendly-fire downing of two U.S. helicopters after American AWACS jets mistook them for Iraqi choppers April 14. The Defense Department acknowledged that two F-15pilots were given the go-ahead to attack by controllers aboard an AWACS radar plane, even though air-control personnel were apparently aware the helicopters were not hostile. The pilots, both unidentified, will also be held partly responsible for not following guidelines and could face courts-martial. The accident killed 26 people -- 15 American military officers, the remainder from Britain, Turkey and France.parpar
According to the February article, Gates in Paris was "furious" because a French couple mistook him for a taxi driver even though he "was standing in the lobby of [his] chic Latin Quarter hotel, in [his] handmade suit, Burberry coat and Paul Stewart scarf...." Gates was furious apparently because "[t]hose guys just weren't seeing...