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...brain-child. In American film it's a new style of acting, demanding the selflessness of a technician rather than the self-consciousness of an aspiring star. The result is neither especially sensitive characterization nor revelatory film. But a hard look at a few realities of one much misunderstood kind of life in this country, taken with a minimum of analytical equivocation, is more than enough to pin anyone back in his seat for a couple of hours...
...Ireland had survived oral transmission through many illiterate generations, and the mountain man added to these stories and songs about his own life--about coal mining, about the wailing freight trains, about home and family, and about his God. The religion of the mountaineer has been so often misunderstood that it is almost obscure today. The words to a song...
According to Marlowe's testimony, Frazier remonstrated with Ohta, accusing him of callous materialism. He suggested that the two of them burn down the house and thus restore the land to its natural state. Panicky, Ohta misunderstood and offered Frazier anything if he would leave the family in peace. That only enraged Frazier further; Ohta was offering the very material things he despised. Frazier pushed Ohta into the pool. When the doctor tried to get out, Frazier shot him. Then Frazier asked Mrs. Ohta if she believed in God. She said yes, whereupon Frazier replied, "Then you have nothing...
...context of its historically rigid framework, Thuy's deletion of "peace, independence and neutrality" represented a significant variation from Hanoi's official policy. Thuy communicated a message which, like others delivered by the North Vietnamese in August, 1969, Nixon and his advisors misunderstood. Whether the misunderstanding was truly misunderstanding is still not clear...
...have probably been so misunderstood as George Jackson, and few events have been as misinterpreted as Attica. Partially, this stems from the complexity inherent in Jackson's own character and in the characters of the men at Attica. But much of the misunderstanding seems to come from the assumption that Jackson or the Attica revolt are novel combustions without historical precedent...