Word: clouded
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...cars. We're in Nevada, near Area 51, and it's 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis's "Hound Dog" on the soundtrack), fear of the Soviets (and why not? they've just penetrated a U.S. military base), fear of The Bomb (hey, what's that mushroom cloud on the horizon?) and mass sightings of UFOs (coming right...
Modern Turkey has looked Westward since its staunchly secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk decreed the separation of mosque and state shortly after World War I. The pro-Western political bent did not immediately translate into liberal economics. Corruption, cronyism and protectionism continued to cloud prospects until the 1980s. Even then, after a period of economic liberalization under reformist Prime Minister Turgut Ozal (a pal of Margaret Thatcher's), the old habits died hard. In 2001, Turkey suffered a full-blown financial crisis in which the Turkish currency lost nearly 50% of its value overnight...
...especially in the blogosphere. And it was true that Moyers presented a fairer, more nuanced picture of Wright-especially the good works done by Wright's church, the hundreds of lives saved and enriched by the church's social ministry, which, if Saint Peter actually does sit on a cloud with an account book, will surely prove more important than Wright's self-absorbed lurches into hateful speech...
...Instead of maintaining the clause that abortion should remain rare, and thus placing a cloud of moral doubt over the procedure, pro-choice Americans should view abortion as morally acceptable. This is the only way to maintain consistency between the morality and legality of abortion. Abraham Lincoln made this same argument when he responded to Stephen Douglas in their famous debates. Douglas supported federal neutrality on the slavery issue, while claiming to be personally ambivalent on whether slavery was right or wrong, which Lincoln called an untenable moral position. Lincoln argued that it was only reasonable for the federal government...
...less entertaining second half, which is drier and tries harder to make its point after an hour and a half has already been spent producing a farce. One of the characters describes herself as “restless” in her marriage—and “Cloud Nine” manages to achieve the same result...