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Thatcher at one point appeared to speculate whether Kohl was in favor of an outright elimination of tactical nuclear weapons. "I'm sure Mr. Kohl will correct me if I have misunderstood him on this issue," she said...
...like doing business by reading results in the press," says Ronald R. Parker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It's very easy to be misunderstood...
...Washington, D.C. last Sunday, State Rep. Marjorie A. Clapprood (D-Sharon), a likely candidate for lieutenant governor, complained about what she thought was an inappropriate choice of words on the part of an airport shuttle driver. "Did he call me `darling? "Clapprood asked friends. They told her she had misunderstood. The driver's quite appropriate warning had been, "Don't lean on the door...
...been involved in the work of several charitable causes. Throughout his first years in New York, he says, he was often stopped on the street by Harvard alumni wanting to console him for what they saw as the disaster that had befallen his presidency. Once again, Pusey felt misunderstood...
...directness. Most remarkable, however, are his agility and grace in evoking the lumbering, graceless creature. Skittering across the floor, or toppled over backward and trying to right himself, or dangling from the spider web of piping that represents a ceiling, Baryshnikov is completely believable as both misfortunate man and misunderstood beast...