Word: crudeness
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...land of the low-budget parable, with big ideas and crude special effects. But the film is well acted (especially by Brendan Gleeson as a friendly, flinty dad). And Boyle's ingenuity with the camera gives this fraught journey plenty of menace and pizazz. The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox...
...Analysts cite mutual interests that Iran and North Korea share as reason to suspect the two countries are collaborating. Intelligence sources say North Korea is working its way up the ladder of nuclear sophistication by acquiring the ability to make not just crude, clumsy A-bombs but also warheads small enough to fit atop its missile arsenal?and Pyongyang has already warned it would be willing to sell its expertise and nuclear material unless the U.S. delivers aid and security guarantees...
...part of a single coherent political command structure - or even a variety of different structures - remains to be seen. There is certainly a level of professionalism in some of the attacks on U.S. forces, suggesting the involvement of members of Saddam's security forces. But others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles. Rumfseld is probably correct in asserting there are a number of different elements at work. But the Defense Secretary may also be a little too inclined to blame the problem exclusively...
...Baghdad--almost as important as killing Saddam Hussein. Capture it early, went the thinking, and the next Iraqi government at least had a chance of getting back on its feet. Ignore it, and Saddam might blow up the facility, flooding the nearby Persian Gulf with crude, compromising Iraq's economy and shutting down critical water-desalination plants all along the Arabian Peninsula...
...case of Maneater, it is safe--and even perhaps encouraged--to judge the book by its bubble-gum-pink cover. The funny, crude and knowing novel follows the antics of Clarissa Alpert, who is untroubled that she possesses no talents, job or interests but a little concerned that she has yet to acquire a husband. "Her timeline was clear: she would be 29 (32) in November; she and her lucky husband would have two children within four years; she'd be divorced by 40 and still hot (thanks to Dr. Drew Franklin of the Beverly Hills Triangle) and living...