Word: cave
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sticking to its guns, saying some compromise on the election issue is still possible. But privately, U.S. officials predict Washington will blink first. With time running out to get a handover started in Baghdad, a State Department source says, "they're going to realize the game's up and cave." --By Massimo Calabresi and Hassan Fatah
...badlands of Sonora after he laid waste Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. (Prosaically, Villa was killed years later not by the U.S. Army but by a man he had cuckolded.) Precisely two years ago, Osama bin Laden slipped away from the mountain ridges of Tora Bora into the cave-riddled, forested valleys of the Hindu Kush, and allied forces have not laid a glove on him since...
...center of the novel is Rizalina, a sweet and resilient servant girl, who comes to Manila to work as a servant for Zamora L?pez de Legazpi, a rich man who claims to have discovered a group of Stone Age cave dwellers in the country's south. (Hagedorn's inspiration for this plot line is the real-life "discovery" of the Tasaday tribe in 1971, later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American...
...count, the un-Burtonizing process turns out to be fairly easy. Burton's home in north London (he has lived off and on in London for several years) is neither a cave nor a haunted mansion but a series of four cottages in a sylvan courtyard that he and actress Helena Bonham Carter, his girlfriend and the mother of their new son, lovingly renovated into a single cozy home. It is the kind of place Hansel and Gretel would run to. Inside, a coal fire hisses softly, and Burton, in clothes of muted color, but color nonetheless, sock-slides...
...series to answer those questions, but if The Reagans' critics--and defenders--didn't invest it with more import than it deserved, there would be no advantage to be gained. Truth be told, little real damage can be done by a sensationalized mini-series or a network's cowardly cave-in. But opportunistic partisans have something in common with opportunistic TV executives. Neither group wants to let the truth get in the way of a good story...