Word: clouding
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...most part, are the warm, fuzzy "image ads" of campaigns past -- candidates frolicking with kids on the beach. There is little of the slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater spot from 1964 (a little girl with a daisy, interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing how to package their candidate ("Get out the flag, boys...
...chilly, sunny day at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y. last year, the Harvard football team saw the ugly cloud of the "second-half collapse" settle itself firmly over the heads of the Crimson...
West Indian poet Derek Walcott, a former visiting Harvard professor who departed the University in a cloud of controversy 10 years ago, won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday for his writings evoking the cultural mix of the Caribbean...
Even some of the groups which comprised the bedrock of Walsh's constituency have backed away from the embattled councillor, trying to avoid the cloud of corruption hanging over their advocate...
There were already several reasons to think the latter is true. For one thing, the existence of the belt and cloud are natural consequences of established theories about the birth of the solar system. According to such theories, the early sun, formed from a cloud of gas and dust, was surrounded by a disk-shaped nimbus made up of the leftovers. The newborn star's heat drove smaller particles and gases, including water vapor, out from the center. The heavier, metal-rich rock left behind condensed into asteroids and the inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Much...