Word: misunderstoodness
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...extinguished the human spirit so ruthlessly that Mao's Cultural Revolution, by contrast, looks like a dinner party. Yet the country's appalling record on missile and weapons proliferation, its illegal-drug sales and counterfeiting and its abysmal human-rights record here are implicitly just the antics of a misunderstood regime. Pyongyang's extortionate tactics with Kim Dae Jung, the South Korean leader who tried to coax it out of isolation, are also glossed over. In Chinoy's zeal to castigate the neocons, there is a subtle subtext that the North is a more or less normal country being prevented...
...here are so familiar with him that a little holding back erodes his authenticity. "Occasionally, I go, 'Oh, there's a kind of joke I don't do anymore.' I used to not care if a joke could be misinterpreted. Now I do care if a joke can be misunderstood," he says. "But that doesn't take up a lot of brain space to figure that out." He won't, for instance, appear on Saturday Night Live this season. "We have to do everything so people understand that this is a real campaign and not just a conceptual-art piece...
Before the accident, the nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle (Doubleday; 468 pages) was a freakishly handsome, drug-addicted porn star who was also, deep breath, an orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn ward, he becomes almost plausible. He banters bitterly with his doctors and plans an elaborate suicide. Davidson could have just stopped here and called it The American Patient...
...table into cups of beer and drink if theirs are hit, is becoming so popular that it is in the midst of a backlash. Some cities and campuses troubled by the binge-drinking culture that accompanies beer pong are banning the pastime and its paraphernalia. "Beer pong is severely misunderstood," says Billy Gaines, co-founder of Bpong.com host of the World Series of Beer Pong (WSOBP). "It's a sport. It just happens to involve alcohol. People are not playing the game to get drunk but because they love the challenge of throwing a table-tennis ball into...
...Vampires are a metaphor for any sort of disenfranchised, misunderstood group," said Ball, explaining their cultural resilience, and also why vamps are perfect for Comic-Con, where outsiders are always...