Word: basically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...connection with the public. He seems incapable of providing comfort or reassurance, or even of speaking in a nonhortatory tone of voice. Worse, by steering clear of Iraq he seems to be making a political calculation about a profound moral issue (stay silent while Bush is hanging himself ). A basic rule for Kerry should be: Anything that makes him seem like a politician is bad, no matter how efficacious; anything that makes him seem like a statesman is good, no matter how risky...
...hotel lobby. The cousin is a mess--hooked up with a trashed rocker, nursing and occasionally flashing her envious grievances at her star relative. They would like to pretend that nothing has changed since childhood. Both know better. You will cringe. You will laugh uncomfortably. You will get the basic idea of Jarmusch's movie, which is that all his anecdotal encounters are about the betrayal of the coffee-and-cigarettes ideal. They're not about the genial bonding we anticipate. They're about misunderstanding, edging over into suppressed hostility...
...cross-dressing secret; Joan Rivers does inane fashion commentary on the red carpet leading to a palace shindig; a dash to rescue the Princess is interrupted by corrupt cops who plant an illegal drug--Yikes! It's catnip--on Puss while tabloid TV covers the bust. The most basic Shrek joke--satirized modernity intruding on fairy-tale romance--is played in 100 variants, some of which will sail over the heads of the littlest kids in the audience (there's plenty else to keep them giggling) but will be very gratefully received by those on parental-guidance duty. This wonderfully...
...Ghraib or that would point out the contradictions of Bush policy more vividly than the sight of a Baathist general taking control of Fallujah from nonvictorious American Marines. The second reason is that Kerry has been pretty consistent about Iraq, and there is no need to change his basic formulation--which is to seek help from the U.N. and the international community--especially since the President is moving willy-nilly to adopt it. Which leads to the third reason: The Bush policy on Iraq seems to be changing drastically, and cautious Kerry may be waiting to see where it stands...
...basic security flaw in Sharon's plan is unlikely to be eliminated, even if Israel picks a brief lull in fighting as an opportunity to withdraw. That's because Sharon's plan requires the Israeli military to maintain control of a strip between Gaza and Egypt it calls the "Philadelphi Road." That would mean that like the Hezbollah gunners that target Israeli outposts in the disputed Shebaa Farms on the border, Palestinian gunners will continue have an immediate and accessible Israeli target in their sights even when the last settlers are gone...