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Or, if you prefer, sexual McCarthyism: the madness that prevails when private mistakes become daily fodder for public titillation, and are then used as political weapons to club the poor sinning bastards to death.
In Italy, Corriere della Sera ran an interview Thursday with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who, asked if the West had made mistakes in its behavior toward post-Communist Russia, said it had made several: regarding Yeltsin as the sole guarantor of Russian democracy, trying to impose economic policies that were completely unsuited to Russia, and closing both eyes to the corruption of the system.
Acquisitions are not necessarily mistakes.
Fight Club is silly stuff, sensationalism that mistakes itself for satire, but it's also a brash and transporting piece of moviemaking, like Raging Bull on acid.
Chernow argues with Tarbell throughout this book, crediting her work and pointing out her mistakes and emotional lapses.