Word: darted
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...aware. In a world of endless woes, you can be overwhelmed into inaction. Or you can make, at some level, an arbitrary choice. That is where celebrities come in, because there is no phenomenon more arbitrary than celebrity. They are attention filters, the human equivalent of throwing a dart at a map. A pretty face and a famous name are a convenient excuse to focus on one problem in the midst of a thousand equally unignorable others. To give to Tibet and not Africa may seem callous. But to pick Richard Gere over Bono--that's just show...
...screams a gunner as he spots al-Qaeda fighters dart in front of him. "Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...
...devastating classic from 1994, and serves only to rekindle nostalgia for Shaolin glory days.Thrown on top of these comatose beats are performances by about a thousand other underground rappers, including decent verses from R.A. The Rugged Man, J-Live, and C-Rayz Walz. But for every passable lyrical dart, there are ten embarrassing performances. Remember Vast Aire, from indie superduo Cannibal Ox? He delivers perhaps the most uninspiring, arrhythmic set of bars in recent hip-hop on “Slow Blues.”What are the album’s strengths? Well, there?...
...popularity of corporate logos may have begun with people who proudly sported the brand names of machinery they used, such as farmers who wore International Harvester caps or truck drivers with Peterbilt belt buckles. Anheuser-Busch during the 1970s began to put its Budweiser logo on such souvenirs as dart boards and Frisbees...
...trip to China in 1972). Some predict that Frankel will nudge the Times away from Rosenthal's more feature-oriented approach and back toward a more traditional hard-news emphasis. "I would expect the paper to be a little more steady on the line," says Salisbury. "It would not dart and jab as much as Abe's paper...