Word: chillness
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...read "OUT OF SERVICE," stopped in front of the church. Approximately 50 Secret Service agents, most wearing the infamous standard-issue trenchcoats and all with earpieces in place, stepped out and proceeded to the rear of the church. They were professionals--stoic and unflinching in the below-zero-wind-chill air. The agents conducted a "sweep" of the church and stationed agents inside...
...lurking beneath these positive numbers is long-term economic turmoil created by global competition, most notably the now familiar chill of massive and continuing corporate downsizing. A record 600,000 announced layoffs took place last year, a process that shows little sign of abating in 1994. Partly because of such cutbacks, the economy has created only 3 million new jobs since the 1990-91 recession ended, or less than half the number produced in the typical postwar recovery. "This is a very tough-sell kind of economy, and it's going to continue to be so," said Laurence Meyer...
Ratzinger's behind-the-scenes interrogations and investigations exert a subtle chill on Catholic intellectual life. His actions imposed an 11-month "penitential silence" on Leonardo Boff, Brazil's exponent of liberation theology (who has since quit the priesthood); they also led to the removal of Charles Curran, a proponent of birth control, from teaching theology at the Catholic University of America. (He is now at Southern Methodist University.) In fact, Ratzinger sometimes seems to be turning his back -- literally -- on modern notions. The pre-Vatican II church, he said last April, was theologically correct in having priests "oriented toward...
...Understand me, my friend. The mission of art is not to make you comfortable. It is to chill you blood, thrill your soul and cause you to run, run, run, all the while shrieking in terror...
...chill has begun. The entertainment community isn't taking any chances as Disney cut the offending scene and MTV excised any references to fire. Perhaps NBC News should show some solidarity and cut out coverage of the California wildfires, lest any children get the wrong idea...