Word: biting
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Elsewhere the touch is surer. Blessed with an extraordinarily vivid Mime in Dutch Tenor Hubert Delamboye, Rochaix gives the conniving dwarf free rein, particularly in Siegfried, where his exchanges with the sturdy Siegfried (American Heldentenor Edward Sooter) have a sharp, often humorous bite. And having Siegfried relate his wooing of Brunnhilde directly to Gunther near the end of Gotterdammerung gives the innocent Siegfried's ensuing murder a special poignancy...
This is not the first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...suspects, has classical myth been rendered with such homely, indeed suburban, protagonists. But for the burning temples in the background one might suppose the scene was a Baltic beach in August. And yet it has a strange, mocking intensity: despite his official position, the old dog could still bite when left to his own subjects, far from the civic view and the official portrait, in his own studio...
...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...
...next time I bite into a quarter-pounder with cheese, I'll know I did my part for world hunger...