Word: blur
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...Mekong Delta. I reckon that thousands of grunts went through the same experience. But if what they did was appalling, it was comprehensible. In a way, they were victims of the machine that vaulted them into a hot, humid, shadowy, alien environment in which friend and foe were a blur, and all a potential threat. Kerrey and his men, like their comrades in other detachments, were chronically and justifiably scared...
...last year. Hong Kong police superintendent Hoe Tak-yan talks about phasing out all patrols in five to 10 years, even of dismantling the fence. "Living standards are getting closer and closer together," he says. Indeed, the border is becoming a dangerous blur. Last August, Yu Man-hon, an autistic 15-year-old boy, slipped away from his mother in Hong Kong and found his way to Lo Wu. Detained on the mainland and interrogated back in Hong Kong, he nevertheless crossed into Shenzhen without identification papers or even the power of speech. His parents are still looking...
Everyone has a paper due tomorrow or a problem set next week. Classes do not change with the seasons. As a result, it’s easy to miss the coming of spring in the blur of Harvard life, but this does not make it right. This is an explanation, not an excuse...
...Pope has a scratchy, dark drawing style that tosses characters and objects together in an impressionistic jumble. His influences seem more Japanese than American, particularly in his use of "speed lines" that turn backgrounds into a blur. Given the heavy amount of black in his work, American film noir seems to also play a significant role in Pope's aesthetic. (Film noir being another genre, besides comics, more highly regarded in Europe.) Particularly representative of his intelligent draftmanship is his use of two colors besides black and white - muted rose and slate blue - to offset highlights and establish changes...
Frusciante's solo explorations are in no way reminiscent of Summer's own new age prog-fusion instrumentals, however, and a better reference point might be Blur's Graham Coxon. The quintessential Britpop guitarist surprised a lot of people with his lovely and overlooked (if somewhat slight) The Sky Is Too High in 1998. Similarly, Frusciante's brand new album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, will confound anyone expecting a funk workout reminiscent of his day job. Like Coxon, Frusciante prefers to wind down on his own time, and in this case the results are 15 short, pretty...