Word: mis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything is set somewhere. Miss Saigon, Les Mis, Cats. Most of these things are set in some time frame. And people have an interest in it. The message is universal. It may be set in New York, but it just as well could have been set in London, or in Los Angeles, but it happened to be set in New York. In terms of the message and in terms of the characters, they're easily identifiable anywhere else. In terms of the markets, all markets are local. They're all different, they put different spins on things. And in terms...
Blacks have come to expect the support of liberal Jews, who find in the black American experience parallels to their own. In spite of this mis-identification, Jews might still have common cause with blacks if blacks responded to their overtures in kind. However, the cultural animosity exuded by black communities, such as those in Crown Heights and those supporting Louis Farrakhan, pose obstacles to this alliance...
There is a common (mis) conception in college hockey that the ECAC is known more for its fast skating and skillful stick-handling, while B.U.'s league, Hockey East, is known for its more physical, hard-hitting style of play...
...MIS-STEAK OF THE YEAR: Britain's mad-cow disease, which gave John Major's government the shakes...
...came as a reporter and mis-represented herself to be a tutor [to the superintendant] and wanted access to the house office," said Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem, who is also Bigelow professor of ichthyology. "She was admitted because we in good faith believed she was a tutor, but she isn't. So she came in under false pretenses...