Word: cauldron
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...explosive, the new material draws its power from a meditative drone. The Liars know well the power of a repeated phrase, and Andrew’s mantra on “We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own” of “take your cauldron and get down” over Hemphill’s harmonizing vocals and bass-low guitar line, legitimizes this culled from the absurd witch imagery pervading the new album. In the song, real meaning comes out of nonsense, simply from the power of the sound. In that regard...
...Indonesian island has long been a cauldron of Muslim-vs.-Christian violence. More than 1,000 people were killed there from 1999 to 2001. After at least a year and a half of calm, masked gunmen recently murdered 12 Christian villagers in two attacks, with most of the killings happening on Oct. 12?the first anniversary of the Bali blasts. Jakarta launched a massive manhunt for the shooters, and the effort yielded quick results. Police killed six alleged gunmen in a firefight on Oct. 16 and arrested 17 others...
...They’re waiting for us in their cauldron of doom,” Kerr said. “They’re going to be a wounded animal, and the wounded animal might try and get out early...
...Arab states--not a single one freely elected--understand that Iraq is only the beginning and that reformation ultimately spells their end. Not a happy prospect for them, but a real hope for their long-repressed peoples--and for those threatened by the chaos and fanaticism bred in that cauldron of repression...
...Museum archives and the memoirs of British Special Branch officers stationed within the fractious International Settlement, Bradby has done for Shanghai what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles?created a stylish and cool genre-fiction tapestry. Bradby also conjures a crime boss, Pockmark Lu, to hover above this seething cauldron. "A man who makes Al Capone look like a social worker," Lu controls an army of 20,000 foot soldiers (based on the real-life Green Gang), hundreds of call girls and boys, imports opium from India and Pakistan and is ruthless in his pursuit of communists, a label...