Word: cobras
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...blurted it out on the air. The show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other...
...teachers demonstrated that they had little idea how to resolve a bullying problem: the best solution, they said, was to bring together perpetrator and victim. Bad move, says Michal Kolar, chairman of the Prague-based Society Against Bullying, who describes that technique as like "trying to confront a cobra with a mouse." Instead, he says, teachers should isolate the victim from the oppressor...
...Model,” where “Jack” tries to find work as a disfigured model whose act includes setting himself on fire and pulling chairs out from his nether region. Still, the majority of the prank calls are like “Pet Cobra,” a mixture of offensive stereotyping (in this case a man with an over-the-top Indian accent who’s bitten by his cobra while charming it with a flute) and an overall difficulty and aggression...
...convoys vulnerable to roadside bombs and ambushes. The only way to protect such convoys is to make them big and mean enough to defend themselves against attack. That may mean adding air cover, usually helicopter gunships like the Army's AH-64 Apache or the Marines' AH-1 Cobra--which in turn would require more troops and more choppers than are available in the theater at the moment. Although vital supplies are getting through, there are shortages of little luxuries--like deodorant--in the green zone, and looming shortfalls of ammunition and fuel. "We didn't have enough transportation units...
...Taliban is like a venomous cobra, striking at everyone who wants to help Afghanistan become modern and independent [March 8]. The token presence of American forces or U.N. peacekeepers will not bring about a solution. The entire world will have to struggle for years, helping Afghanistan in its transformation. We must achieve this goal. K.C. SUBHASH CHANDRA Bangalore, India...