Word: benightedness
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In a part of the world where people can be killed for trinkets, the astronomical U.S. bounty on Zawahiri - plus whatever the CIA is offering from its discretionary slush fund - has no doubt inspired countless bounty hunters and snitches peddling dubious information. It's too soon to say whether the...
Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn...
No doubt "solutions" was a slip-but the notion that "Democratic ideas" might not be an oxymoron represented one small step forward for the perpetually benighted Donkey party.
Part of the book's strength is its medium. The notion that comics are merely for children was buried long ago by Art Spiegelman's Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the Holocaust, and its offspring, like Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde, one of the best books on...
Despite vowing that it wouldn't offer Kim sweeteners to return to the bargaining table, Washington has reacted with cautious praise?in Seoul last week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the South Korean plan "a very creative idea." It's not clear, though, what penalties Kim might face...