Word: clouded
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...Burns takes it one step farther, adding monsters and phantasmagoric twists. Burns’ work is best encapsulated in his hilariously disturbing “McSweeney’s” issue title page cover: A silver screen starlet embraces a creature covered in sores while a nuclear mushroom cloud explodes in the background. His work borrows heavily from the pulpy comics of the 1950s but combines the familiar elements with overwhelmingly vivid ink drawings...
...foreign ministry welcomed Musharraf's offer, and Kashmiri families-some separated from loved ones for nearly half a century-are expected to soon come flooding across the LoC. The devastation they will encounter, particularly on the Pakistani side, is hellish. The stench of death still hangs in a pestilential cloud over Muzaffarabad, the largest Kashmiri city on the Pakistani side. Thousands died in the city, many of them in hospitals and schools destroyed by the 7.6 magnitude quake-on Wednesday, aid officials revised the final death toll upwards in Pakistan from 54,000 to nearly 80,000. Another...
...when astronomers started thinking about where comets actually came from, they realized that there was an enormous cloud of icy chunks, named the Oort Cloud (after the Dutch astronomer who proposed it), orbiting invisibly tens of trillions of miles from the sun. A second group of comets, according to Gerard Kuiper (a Dutch American), must come from closer in, falling sunward from the disk-shaped cloud of icy chunks just beyond Neptune that bears his name. Sure enough, when astronomers trained their telescopes on the Kuiper Belt 15 years ago, they started finding all sorts of objects. In the past...
...came as no great surprise when House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted last week by a Texas grand jury on charges of criminal conspiracy. After all, a cloud of suspicion had long hovered over the Texas Republicans head in relation to alleged violations of campaign finance laws. Whats especially troublesome about last weeks development, however, is the fact that ethical violations such as DeLays are by no means extraordinary in todays Washington. Indeed, several other key political figuresincluding Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, presidential adviser Karl Rove, and Thomas Finneran, the former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representativesare...
...Daniels, 50, in the big-budget camper comedy R.V. "He's frightening in his coldness." In R.V., Daniels plays one of the "nicest folks you'd ever want to get away from," says co-star Robin Williams. "He can give that sense that, as sweet as he is, a cloud can come at any moment...