Word: cloak
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...York Jewish community has shown itself to be a voting group with a very disturbing racial agenda. As they attempt cloak their intolerance in self-righteous outrage at persecution against Jews, they display their own bigotry in its full ugly colors...
These things may seem obvious, but it is easy to lose sight of the real motivation that drives hardcore classical music listeners when they cloak their enjoyments with a veil of esotericism, exchanging knowing winks and nods at the sales counter when someone asks who the composer of "Don Giovanni...
Tonight at Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard men's hockey team opens up the ECAC quarter-finals against Rensselaer. And both teams--which have faced each other in the playoffs four out of the last five years--are eager to cast off the cloak of the regular-season...
...Hollywood would handle these things. He staged a dogfight with Muammar Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra in 1981. Five years later, Reagan wowed the world with Thirty Seconds over Tripoli. That raid was nothing less than an assassination attempt, in the same spirit as the cloak-and-dagger boys' dreams of using exploding cigars and Mafia hit men to finish off Castro in the 1960s. Much was made of how U.S. bombers taught Libya a lesson for its sponsorship of terrorism. Maybe so, but they missed their main target: Gaddafi himself...
Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...