Word: armchair
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...face of Iraq's gritty resistance, squads of armchair generals have complained that the deployment is too small and too light. At the moment, Franks' troops do not satisfy the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force. Standard Army practice prescribes two heavy divisions for a campaign of this magnitude. Bush the elder fielded 540,000 U.S. troops to kick Saddam out of the desert wastes of Kuwait. For the more ambitious task of driving Saddam from power, Rumsfeld pushed Franks to fight with half that number, fewer troops and less armor than the general originally wanted. But the current battle plan...
Plenty of war blogs are also posted by stateside armchair pundits. Sean-Paul Kelley, who runs The Agonist (at agonist.org) says traffic to his site has increased more than tenfold, to over 60,000 visitors a day, since the war began. From his home in San Antonio, Texas, the self-employed asset manager posts 10 to 20 news updates a day, culled from dozens of websites and media reports from such far-flung outlets as the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald and the Army Times. Each posting gets about 100 replies, which are also posted online...
...prowling a patch of Bangkok wasteland, cars howling past on the expressway above, a stylishly ruffled figure picking through rubbish, which?in the opinion of gawking slum dwellers nearby?has already been stripped clean of anything valuable. "Very rich pickings," muses Swaffield, before plunking himself down in a discarded armchair that is hemorrhaging orange and yellow foam. "Awesome," he pronounces...
...there's a bomb site that hasn't been cleared up since the 1940s. It's a fun, vivid world." MCKELLEN'S most vivid role may be the powerful and sagacious magician Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but he looks remarkably human as he reclines in an armchair dressed in rubber slippers, leather trousers and blue T shirt. After years as one of Britain's most distinguished stage actors, McKellen's turns as Gandalf and The X-Men's twisted Magneto have helped those films rake in a staggering combined gross of nearly $2 billion. He has twice...
...teenage Marie-Therese Walter, a pillowy blond who would shortly become his lover and eventually bear their daughter Maya. Within a few years he was seeking a way to paint rapture, and where better to find an answer than in the canvases of Matisse? For Nude in a Black Armchair, 1932, he borrowed Matisse's voluptuous curves as a sign for pleasure and his use of black to intensify pink. And on seeing work like that--pictures that amplified the innovations of his own earlier work--Matisse was inspired to the more radical flattening that brought him three years later...