Word: blusterer
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First, George W. Bush twitted Europeans' environmental correctness by deciding to let the United States sit out the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Then he offended their sophisticated moral sensibilities with his plainspoken bluster about "the axis of evil." But last week, U.S. unilateralism struck an especially sensitive part of Europeans' anatomy: their pocket books. In a decision that seems directly to contradict the free-market gospel that is America's chief political export, Bush imposed protectionist tariffs of 8% to 30% on foreign steel...
...piano appeared amid flashing beams, and Amos, clad in shoulder-padded white, hurtled onstage, straddled the piano and laid her fingers on the keys. Recent tours had seen her experimenting with a full band, whose bluster was in sharp contrast to the fiery solo piano that had been Amos’ trademark. The “Strange Little Tour,” as it was called, marked a return to the girl-with-a-piano paradigm. In that vein, only three of the songs Amos played that night were from Strange Little Girls, opting instead to grant a grateful audience...
...morning just as soon as the dark clouds lift / I’ll break the roof, set fire to the place as a parting gift.” Particularly not in the same song (“Summer Days”). But Dylan isn’t all bluster and arson: “I need something strong to distract my mind / I’m going to look at you ‘til my eyes go blind,” is one of the more beautiful lyrics anyone has written for a while, and his admission that...
...Last year he applied the lessons he learned in the early 1990s to describe, step by step, how a lone enzyme copies a DNA sequence into RNA. Even identical enzymes, he found, often work differently--some dawdle and abandon their duties, while others go about their business with a bluster. Routine biochemistry would have glossed over such details. "Carlos," says Tjian, "has taken us to the next level...
...Therrians' relationship, which is troubled by the rise of his career, the decline of hers and the question of having a child. Their guests are largely played by the auteurs' acting pals; all the characters have something to do with show biz. In other words, egos can go from bluster to fragility, from savagery to sympathy, in the blink of an eye--without revealing which is the real emotion, which the fake...