Word: cannoneering
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...commanders said their troops were moving faster than expected because there had been no opposition from Somali clan militias and armed gangs. Under an agreement with clan leaders, their heavy weapons -- trucks and jeeps mounted with cannon and machine guns -- are withdrawing from towns the multinational force controls...
...propaganda effort was photography and the new art of photocollage, brilliantly deployed -- in combination with sharp, eye-rattling typographic forms -- in book jackets, handbills and movie posters. Anton Lavinsky's 1926 poster for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, which grabs the eye with the staring authority of those two black cannon muzzles framing the whispering, mutinous sailor, is a classic of the genre...
...people were paying attention -- except George Bush. In daily meetings with his top political advisers, the President pushed staffers to find ways to exploit Dornan's charges. Most of his advisers, deterred by Dornan's loose- cannon reputation and lack of proof, at first shied away from the allegations. But Bush just "wouldn't let go," says a top adviser, adding that the charges played on the President's aversion to anything he considers unpatriotic -- "like the flag-burning thing...
...assembled they are another thing -- just as Ernst's drawings made of rubbings from the floorboards of his seaside hotel became another thing. Here is the silent ugly cannon in the room of screens, each bearing a familiar image; in a second it will fire of its own accord, blowing the screens to shreds; we stand, as the title says, On the Threshold of Liberty. Some of Magritte's images have taken on, with time, a truly prophetic aura. One of these is Eternity (1935). Three pedestals in a museum, with a red rope stretched in front of them...
...college met its requirements by canceling its order for a 7090 and instead buying an IBM 1401 -- a simple nonresearch "baby computer" (price: $80,000) that is roughly 100 times less powerful and used for different purposes. "It's like the difference between a BB gun and a cannon," says a former top salesman, Ken Crider, who was "shocked" that IBM management allowed Perot to walk away with a commission on the original order...