More than a week into the invasion of Iraq, the ordinary confusions of war are billowing at full sail: misplaced prisoners, balky radios, sand-swept helicopter landings, missing gear.
Stu, as the man who most completely embodies ordinary male confusion, is the center of the two films, and Helms is at his frenzied best when he tries to exert logic in the most chaotic situations, and then, giving up, stiffens his back, whirls his arms, and shrieks in frustration.
But many scientists fear that Mr. Mbeki's comments will fuel confusion among ordinary people who may assume they can continue risky sexual behavior because the president has questioned whether H.I.V. causes AIDS.
Sharing something in common with Elizabeth Bowen's great novel The Heat of the Day, Gary Owen's four-hander captures the confusion of ordinary people living extraordinary lives in the emotional maelstrom of war.
But researchers fear that Mr. Mbeki's heavy emphasis on poverty and his talks with AIDS dissidents may fuel confusion among ordinary people who may assume they can engage in risky sexual behavior because the president has raised questions about H.I.V. "I was disappointed, to put it bluntly," Roy Anderson, a prominent AIDS researcher, said of Mr. Mbeki's speech.
But a game of mutual blackmail over the presidential race is blocking opposition unity on the local level, much to the confusion of ordinary voters and to the distress of local government officials, who do not share the rivalries of their national party bosses.
By the same token, the critics of the sense-datum theory argued that the mistaken pictorial view of mental images arises mainly from our confusion about ordinary language and claimed that mental images are epiphenomena.
It is argued that under the sway of confusion the ordinary beings falsely and erroneously believe in the reality of entirely unreal entities and the truth of wholly false epistemic instruments, just like the people who mistakenly grasps cataracts and falling hairs to be real objects.
The failure to distinguish between them is the source of much confusion, in ordinary conversation, academic research, and political debate.
"It doesn't make us safer, it creates confusion for ordinary citizens, complicates law enforcement's job, and puts a target on the backs of LGBT Texans.
