Word: beneath
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...biggest issue is the fight for the oil beneath Kirkuk, to the southwest, but even in Mosul, a Kurdish Commander in the Iraqi army expressed deep concerns. "Tomorrow," Col. Hazar, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi Army 5th Battalion told me, "if [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki transferred an Arab battalion up here, then we could not trust these people because they would use violence against us." (See a video on Iraq, six years after the U.S. invasion...
...like Jonathan Swift—specifically in his satire “The Lady’s Dressing Room”—Boyle seems determined to expose the raw humanity behind ideals of free love and art—the age and decay of the flesh hidden beneath elaborate outfits and artfully applied rouge. Or perhaps Boyle merely wishes to debunk the notion that people in the early to mid 1900s did not sweat—they glistened...
...trailer on the edge of a film set beneath an underpass in downtown Cape Town, Ian McKellen, 69, is musing about fame and death, and what the papers will say when he goes. " 'GANDALF DIES,' I expect," he says. The thought tickles him. Not the dying part. The part about being a classical actor and having billions of fans, most of whom are 12. "When you spend as long as I have doing beautiful work which is only seen by a few thousand people, to be involved in popular entertainment without lessening one's standards ... that's fairly appealing...
...urged the group to "keep fighting." She joined the cause in earnest in 1975. A quarter-century later, she copped to involvement in two crimes committed that year: a bank robbery near Sacramento in which a customer, Myrna Opsahl, was fatally shot; and the planting of two pipe bombs beneath police cars. (They failed to detonate and were successfully defused...
...During her two-plus decades in Minnesota, Olson revealed little about her past but made no attempt to alter her appearance. She threw lavish parties, became a noted social activist, and even appeared in local productions of Shakespeare. But her past lurked beneath the veneer of normalcy: during the 1990s, the FBI began to close in, and Olson began attempting to contact authorities through a San Francisco reporter to discuss terms of surrender. In 1999, after the TV show America's Most Wanted profiled Soliah on the 25th anniversary of the California bank shooting, she was pulled over by police...