Word: bolting
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...consensus. Forget pleasant sentiments. This humanitarian breaks taboos and reveals matters that render us sleepless. Faced with the globalized inhumanity that is burning the 21st century, Kouchner is introducing a new humanism without geographical or political borders. He does it not to open the gates of paradise, but to bolt the gates of hell. --BY ANDRE GLUCKSMANN, philosopher and political essayist
...Kweller has a tale of woe. In 1996, when he was just 15, his garage band, Radish, was signed by Nirvana guru Danny Goldberg to a major-label deal and was subsequently profiled at Proustian length in the New Yorker. The album that came out of the experience, Restraining Bolt, wasn't bad, but Kweller could not have marshaled more jealous cultural forces against him had he been handed a MacArthur genius grant at graduation. There were cheers when the album tanked...
...single day of mass murder. Is there an upside? You might comfort yourself by drawing a line between the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. That is what the incoming Spanish government has done. Though it is apparently set on withdrawing from Iraq, it will not bolt from the antiterrorism coalition. But the terrorists don't accept that distinction. For them, the key battlefield is Iraq. The thrust of their strategy is to break up the U.S.-led coalition. They live by a simple maxim: "The worse, the better...
...with greater functionality, why choose the other?? Smith says Microsoft's offer to bolt rivals' media software onto Windows would have benefited consumers. As it stands, it's hard to see how Europe 's PC shoppers will gain from half a decade of regulatory wrestling. See Also: A Hard Line on Software Creating Another Monster Where's the fastest place to get good career advice? It might soon be the Monster Network, an online, searchable Rolodex from job-posting leader Monster.com. Tapping the viral power of networking services like Friendster.com (which links people who have mutual friends), the new Monster...
...Hefner?s early bolt of gonadal genius was the gatefold. The center of the magazine kept opening, like the promise of erotic deliverance on a summer night, until the 24-inch Playmate photo was displayed - more than a third of her actual height, and four times the size of a shot in the cheap magazines. Foldouts were a feature of Life as well, but those were typically illustrations of the Stone Age, suitable for schoolroom use. Hefner had in mind a more tactile edification. His Playmate centerfolds, in addition to giving males the opportunity to strengthen their eye-hand coordination...