Word: desertic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gesture that he's a chauvinist dinosaur. When he inquires if they're "ready to get serious," they reply encouragingly. What he doesn't know, of course, is that they're thinking metaphorically, with a little help from director Scott, with whose surrealistic reinvention of the West -- one-third desert, one-third industrial wasteland, one-third unzoned strip development -- this oil-truck rig fits right in. In Scott's eyes, and his heroines', it is a gigantic penis. And, yes, they are ready for that. Ready to blow it to smithereens with their little guns...
Libyan leader MUAMMAR GADDAFI, spooked by Operation Desert Storm and feeling lonely now that Syria has tilted toward the West, however slightly, is trying to end his isolation from the West. The strongman met secretly in Tripoli with Teddy Taylor, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, to talk about re-establishing diplomatic ties that were cut off in 1984, after a London policewoman monitoring an anti-Gaddafi rally was killed by a sniper hidden in the Libyan embassy. Gaddafi apologized and presented Taylor with a $500,000 check to a British police charity as restitution, but the Libyan...
When that time off finally comes, the soldiers and their families will finally have a chance to sit back and consider what has changed -- and what hasn't -- since they were last together. Many soldiers' marriages, shaky before Desert Storm began, became casualties of the war. Tom Hacker, of Sterling, Ill., marched off to the gulf with his National Guard unit in January. He came home to a hero's welcome in May and a pink slip from the hardware factory where he had worked as a tool-and-dye man. "I felt terrible about it, but the state...
Three months after the gulf war ended, Saudi Arabia seems to have returned to its placid ways. But the calm atmosphere is a mirage. Operation Desert Storm may be over, but it has unleashed powerful political and social crosswinds in the kingdom. Buffeted by the currents, King Fahd is struggling to preserve a precarious balance between secular moderates and religious conservatives while opening up the family-run government to his subjects. At stake is not only the direction of Saudi society, but also the survival of a royal dynasty that has ruled the country since its founding 60 years...
Uncomfortable indulging in what he derides as "climbing on the couch," Bush has in the past loathed this sort of self-analysis. Now his aides are noticing more introspection. While confidence born of Bush's Desert Storm success accounts for some of his new candor, his aides date the introspection to early May, not March. "You really are seeing a lot more of the personal side of George Bush," said one. "Part of it is that he's more confident as President. But it's more than that, and part of it is the heart thing...