Word: mix-up
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...just had a couple of parties. We trashed a room twice in three weeks. It's just a mix-up--it wasn't really our fault," Millitello says...
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life...
Ironically enough, aside from David J. Cohen's mail mix-up, the four David Cohens at Harvard don't get confused too often...
David J. Cohen says he worries more about a mix-up between him and a David Cohen who didn't get into Harvard. "There was a David J. Cohen in my high school," he says, "actually, I'm not the one who's supposed to be here...
...After a mix-up which resulted in the Dudley House elections starting a day late, election-watchers saw light voting in the non-resident house...