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...black suit and sat in a black chair in a room with black walls, so that his face seemed to hover in mid-screen, and delivered his pitch in a deep, smoke-cured voice. At the end of each spot he would bring on his family and then dismiss his wife and daughters and fondly drape an arm around each of his two sons...
When the story of the stolen documents finally broke this month, a Pentagon spokesman tried to dismiss it as the result of "overzealousness and overexuberance" on the part of low-ranking staff members. Some officers privately said, however, that far from being gung-ho, Radford and Welander did no more than what is expected of most liaison personnel. The military, loathing surprises, takes extraordinary steps to keep itself apprised of what is going on in Washington. At least 515 liaison officers are assigned to civilian agencies; there are even five in the U.S. Postal Service. Declared one retired admiral: "Military...
...four themes (Peter Townshend's, in fact) is explicitly moral, and the weakest, lyrically and musically, ending the opera with a piece of simplistic fluff called "Love, Reign O'er Me." In the main though, aside from Quadrophenia's socio-historical-contextual significance (which is nothing to dismiss), whatever statement it makes is one of "stance...
With due chivalry, Sanders refused to dismiss Dartmouth as a threat in a practice session yesterday. "They're all easy until we meet them," Sanders said. "I thought UMass would be weaker than they were, and we lost that one, so I'm not making any predictions...
...Economist seems to suggest that if the U.S. only had a constitutional king who symbolized the nation, it would be a lot easier to dismiss Richard Nixon from the White House since the nation's image of itself would not suffer so grievously in the process. In other words, let politicians govern-and come and go if need be-but let kings embody the dignity of the state...