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The next task for the footnote, scarcely begun, is the mastery of electronic information, an undertaking that offers opportunities for utility and mischief on an incomparable scale.
One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."
The paper quotes the DOD Y2K czar saying nevertheless that "there's very little real mischief going on here."
Of course, if a researcher tampers with the evidence, making a unilateral, unsupported claim or assumption that a word means something that it does not, then that does not constitute semantic change: it is what is known as dirty work at the crossroads, and M&S are indulging in a bit of mischief by suggesting that semantic change either has taken place or is taking place because they have some evidence that a certain change in usage had crept in.
Night has fallen, and Mischief opts for flinty grays and blacks, the city-slickness and palpable sexuality of Cronenberg's Crash and Verhoeven's Basic Instinct . Clever camera work tilts the asphalt, giving the spot some depth and visual interest.