Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Jew, I am offended by the patronizing behavior of both Gary Hart and Walter Mondale concerning the location of the U.S. embassy in Israel. Each is trying to prove that he is a better friend to Israel. Hart and Mondale have the mistaken notion that Jews are interested only in this one issue...
...education of a TV anchor to the buying patterns of Hispanic migrant workers, that jump confusingly from page to page after page. At its best, the Times can be as informative and interpretive as any daily in the English language. At its worst, it seems to reflect a mistaken notion that readers want to spend all day with...
...stories were not denied, because they were true. Their appearance was a telltale sign of division within the Administration, at subordinate if not senior levels. Such leaks almost always come from officials seeking to torpedo a policy they regard as disastrously mistaken...
...process the actors have unlocked, as well, the wild humor ("I laughed a lot when I wrote the play") that was also integral to Miller's first imaginings, yet was somehow lost to memory and lost on revivalists, who have mistaken glum sobriety for high seriousness. On the night of Feb. 10, 1949, when Salesman opened on Broadway the first time, Arthur Kennedy, the original Biff, recalls wandering around in a daze between acts, encountering Miller, and asking him how he thought the play was going. "The issue is not in doubt," the playwright firmly replied...
...galleries in SoHo and TriBeCa (through April 14) may not be as complex and many-layered as Graves', but they have their own peculiar intensity about the stuff of the natural world - in his case, wood. Surls, 40, a muscular farm dweller from Splendora, Texas, who is sometimes mistaken for Willie Nelson, works with whole branches and roots, artfully pegged and jointed together so that their knotty, straight-from-the-ground appearance is kept even as they turn into parodies of the human figure. It is like the folksy sensibility that pops two eyes on an odd-shaped root...