Word: busters
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...Democratic Party has begun flooding reporters with "myth buster" e-mails arguing that McCain is "pandering to the right wing," "walking in lockstep with President Bush" and "embracing the ideology he once denounced." At the same time, the liberal advocacy group Media Matters has been releasing broadsides against any journalist who dares describe the sometimes maverick McCain as a maverick...
...edge of a dirt crater 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep, Lieutenant Shawn Spainhour and Sheikh Dawood Rashid al-Shuhaib stare down in silence at the wreckage. In August 2007, the U.S. military bombed the sheikh's house, obliterating it with a 500-lb. JDAM "bunker buster." The rest of the village was flattened by artillery. Spainhour, in full battle gear - flak jacket, helmet, knife, guns, boots, camouflage and radio - turns to the grief-stricken, 60-year-old sheikh, who is wearing resplendent traditional Arab dress, and asks his translator to tell him that "I sincerely apologize for everything...
...watch him growing up but not a lot. Even Buster Keaton, who people say I am reminiscent of, I really never saw at all. I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. Chaplin was an incredible acrobat and a real circus performer. I am not. I am actually quite physically challenged. [Laughs...
...their pull as comedy stars; they could make the audience fall in laugh with them. Just now, they are two of a dozen or so movie comics who are giving the genre a clout it hasn't seen for decades--maybe since the great silent era of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn and their jolly colleagues aren't of Chaplin's artistic stature, but they are something the industry loves (moneymakers) and the public needs (pleasure givers). Fronting hit after hit, comedy stars have taken the place of those Hollywood...
...what comes in between. In a vein similar to that of Dan Brown, Palahniuk captivates the reader with his supposed facts, little tidbits of information so well fleshed out that it’s difficult to doubt their veracity. “Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey” is written in the form of interviews with everyone connected to the eponymous protagonist. The plot can be loosely defined as a look at Rant’s strange childhood (one in which his mother filled the family’s food with shards of metal and glass...