Word: barreled
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...different species. She's up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory." Like a 3-year-old, Tarantino demonstrates his affection through inventive cruelty. In Pulp Fiction he gave Thurman an adrenaline needle to the heart (a nice metaphor for love, Tarantino style). But that was a barrel of rose petals compared with what he cooked up for her in Kill Bill. "I get shot in the head, raped, kicked, beaten and sliced by samurai swords," says Thurman brightly. "The movie should have been called Kill...
...Bush Administration appears to be convinced that it would be disastrous for re-election purposes to hand over Iraq lock, stock and barrel to the U.N. But the U.S. has shown that it has a superior ability to get rid of nasty dictators. So now why not let the international community finish the job? Do Americans really want U.S. troops to stay in Iraq? LENNART DAHLBECK Stockholm...
DIED. PAUL CONKLIN, 74, the Peace Corps's first official photographer, whose famous shot of a Vietnam War protester placing a daisy in the barrel of a National Guardsman's gun crystallized the antiwar sentiments of a generation; of cancer; in Port Townsend, Wash...
Norway's Pride Over a Barrel As Norway's biggest firm, the oil giant Statoil has always played a vital role in the country's self-image. With revenues of $34 billion a year, the state-owned company is seen as a guarantor of the country's social-welfare system. But when Statoil tried to expand its shrinking domestic business by looking for gas in Iran, it ran into trouble. In mid-September, economic-crime police raided the company's Stavanger headquarters; they believe a $15 million payment to the Swiss bank account of a consulting firm may have been...
...media adviser should never become the story. Rule 2: Don't be nasty; you may disagree with reporters, you may tussle with them, but browbeating eventually backfires. Rule 3: Under no circumstances attack the media as a whole. They are jealous of their prerogatives, and buy ink by the barrel. Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy, has staked his own career - and arguably the future of Blair's government - on exactly the opposite course. This week the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons will issue a report on whether Blair misused intelligence on weapons...