Word: albatross
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...dramatic chronicle of the encounter of the aging conquistador Francisco Pizarro and the young Inca emperor Atahuallpa, however, the play is mechanical, preachy, largely unaffecting and sometimes silly. Ancient Mariner style, Shaffer supplies his own albatross in the form of a narrator, always an ill omen that the drama will be becalmed. He harangues the listener on the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and the evils of war and plunder. His ultimate theme is that God is dead and life lacks meaning. Royal Hunt is a sort of Tiny Alice shorn of obscurantism and sent to Inca land...
...their befuddled captors, the children soon seem as unlucky an omen as a dead albatross. Horridly adaptable, the youngsters regard lust and violence as spectator sports, cruelty as commonplace. Death itself is a game to them...
...very well might have been, but seven U.S. Navy Skyraiders from a nearby Seventh Fleet carrier suddenly swooped in almost low enough to get their bellies wet, buzzed the Red vessels. Meanwhile, an amphibious Air Force HU-16 "Albatross" that had been circling off Quangkhe in case of just such an emergency, zeroed in on a radio homing beacon built into Cullen's life belt and sighted a brilliant orange marker dye that the downed pilot had released into the water. Defying 5-ft. waves, the Albatross set down without mishap in the choppy gulf, taxied up to Cullen...
...candidacy is dead, but those who refused to count her votes, our votes, live on. For what they did Monday they bear the curse of cain, the albatross, and the scarlet letter. They were born bureaucrats, and bureaucrats they will remain. May they be drowned in a pit of red tape and their death certificates notarized in quadruplicate. Christian Brannon
Romney refused to don "the Goldwater albatross," concentrated on his record (he turned Michigan's chronic deficit into a $57.1 million surplus), thus did even better in Detroit's Democratic Wayne County than he had two years ago. In doing so, the canny car builder denied a ride on Lyndon's coattails to Democratic Congressman Neil Staeb'er (who was held to about 53% of the Wayne County vote, v. Johnson's 71%). It was enough to let Romney ramble, and he may yet ramble a lot further. Other key gubernatorial races: > >Republican Daniel Jackson...