Word: ah
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...Ah, American War Movies. American War Trial Movies, to be specific. Their point, most often is to make you think, often to point out the discrepancies between the culture and expectations of the army and those of American society. They're deep. War and the army require different values, society recognizes, simply by way of the fact that they sanction killing. Soldiers surrender their most treasured American privilege, autonomy, to a world of orders and discipline. What the war trial movie usually asks, then, is to what extent can the values of society be eschewed in the protection...
...Back across on the waters on his Island, the Satan-Prospero of long ago whipped up his own surreal theater of hysteria. In my dream I saw video closeups of the Dictator's famous beard, and I thought in the dream: "Ah, you know, the CIA tried years ago to make that beard fall out with depilatories, in order to make the Dictator look ridiculous and discredit him. And, by God, it looks now as if the depilatories are finally working! Forty years later! Get a load of that air-conditioned beard...
...giant seem like a highly paid extension of college life: a video shows young men and women at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters playing with Nerf toys between all-night bouts of writing code. Nearby, the Boeing booth touts its work on the space station. But Dongxia (pronounced doong-shee-ah), 32, like many of the 500 techies mobbing the job fair, is soon drawn across the gym to a navy-blue booth that bears the seal of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...
...Ah, middle school science fair. Backboards and beakers cluttered our kitchen tables, while mom nagged us for not starting the project sooner. For some, the middle school science fair was only the beginning of a bright and promising career in the sciences. For Dennis J. Mak '03, the middle school science fair framed him as a prime suspect in the search for the Unabomber...
...Ah, the warm sun, the gentle breeze, the beautiful climate of California during spring break could make anyone, even a driven Harvard student, into a lethargic mess for a week...