Word: boomerang
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...First the boomerang-toss reward challenge, for which Jerri won (there's a sexual metaphor in there somewhere) a free meal and a great opportunity to attempt gracious victory by clapping both hands to her face and yelling "Oh my God!" several times. (Alicia didn't buy it - is it me, or did she actually get kind of likable this week?) And as Jerri and Amber dined on seafood and iced tea and snarked about Tina and her own clumsy emotional fakery, the remaining seven seemed perfectly happy to hunker around the fire with another starch buffet...
...rectangular, oval or flat. She takes a simple shape and varies it simply-some pieces are scalloped, some are painted to look like they are. For this show, she has made a few more innovative pieces, the most striking of which is a large (14.5" diameter) disk in a boomerang-like shape, glazed bright red up to the naturally white edges. This, her only titled piece in the show, she calls "Brother...
...That speech appears to have [had] a boomerang effect, which is peculiar, but hey--it's a peculiar year," Carroll said, adding that California's primary system, approved in 1996, is "nutty...
...against domestic terrorism, but it may find itself in a tight spot if Moscow goes to war with Chechnya in the name of that fight," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s too early to tell whether this is just bluff and bluster, but even then it could boomerang on Moscow ?- the bombing of Grozny airport is unlikely to go unanswered...
There is concern that the preoccupation with zero casualties may boomerang. "Force protection has taken on a higher degree of importance than the other battlefield dynamics of firepower, leadership and maneuver, and has often stifled the flexibility of the operational commander," retired Army Colonel Max Manwaring wrote recently. The U.S. desire to avoid risking troops, though understandable, "sends mixed signals to warring factions, reduces U.S. credibility with coalition partners as well as antagonists, and hampers civil-military cooperation," he wrote. "Excessive emphasis on force protection can be politically and militarily dangerous...