Word: blunt
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Various proposals on how to do that have been put forward, several by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, a leading expert on nuclear weapons. Missile nose cones, he suggests, could be replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual inspection procedures. All of the steps could be reversed, but they would build in a safety valve of time, giving an opportunity to reflect...
...winner. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter's groundbreaking first album sold 2 million copies; her second, the spottily brilliant My Life, sold 3 million; both spawned countless sound-alikes. The bold but ultimately mercenary ghetto-sex-bomb posturing of rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, the emotionally blunt crooning of talented teen singer Aaliyah and even the admirably artsy neo-soul stylings of Erykah Badu all have roots in Blige's success. But Blige was the original round-the-way diva; her hard, up-from-the-projects exterior made her raw vocals that much more affecting. Says producer Jimmy...
Cypress Hill touts the Almighty Blunt, the Living Stones tout the Almighty God. It is not clear to me what makes their message any more dangerous to share...
...fiercely told story. Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They're always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies. This is a newer, more interesting form of innocence than the '50s kind, and when their true feelings burst through, their breakdowns and breakups are really scary. Like Inventing the Abbotts, this movie knows that the questing phallus is the main source of youthful romantic angst. But Chasing Amy doesn...
...This devastates Holden and wrecks both relationships. "It?s a sad and fiercely told story," notes Schickel. "Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They?re always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies." BOOKS . . . BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Robert Stone?s fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled...