Word: clouded
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...blanket charge of elitism against Obama. Copping her lines almost directly from 30 years of Republican smear literature, Clinton assessed Obama’s rhetoric as out-of-touch with supposedly authentic heartland values. Her surrogates quickly jumped into line to help paint Obama in the political poison-cloud of liberal snobbery...
...half the time available to New Delhi, Beijing has built up an impressive lineup of stadiums for the 2008 Olympic Games. In addition to sprucing up its transport system and taking measures to improve its air quality, Beijing has even had time for over-the-top measures like testing cloud-diffusing technology to ward off untimely rains. But then, as New Delhi's supporters would say, that's because India is a democracy rather than an autocracy: Beijing has not had to contend with citizens' protests the way New Delhi has - from environmentalists protesting construction on the Yamuna's floodplains...
...recent afternoon I was walking down Hamra, Beirut's old main shopping area, when a car pulled up alongside of me and the driver asked how I liked Lebanon. The place is still thriving, the snow-capped peaks, not a cloud in the sky, the shops full of the latest stylish clothes. It was fantastic, of course...
...withouttalking about it fi rst.RR: What is your angriest scene in the play?JM: My angriest scene in the play is the fi nale for act one, where I am baitingJuror #3, who is my staunchest opponent. Juror #3 is allowing personal feelings ofhis own past to cloud the issue, and Juror #8 is very well aware of that.RR: Is there anything you think about to mentally prepare for angry scenes?JM: Not really. I think about the character and the situation.RR: What’s the angriest you’ve ever been in your life?JM: I don?...
...criticizing the attorney general's zealotry: "I will be coming after you," Spitzer allegedly told Whitehead, who said he immediately took notes of the conversation. "You will pay dearly for what you have done." (Spitzer's communications director Darren Dopp, who later left the administration under an ethics cloud, denied Whitehead's account...