Word: disquietment
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...considering an invasion is that Iraq's alleged weapons programs represent an intolerable threat to U.S. interests. But if the inspection regime fails to deliver something approaching proof of Iraq's non-conventional weapons programs at the same time as North Korea flaunts its own nuclear capability, U.S. domestic disquiet over prioritizing an Iraq invasion may grow...
...juxtaposition between reality and fiction is emblematic of the spirit of the First Guangzhou Triennial. This innovative retrospective of recent experimental Chinese art throws a spotlight on compositions that are witty, even self-mocking, with an undercurrent of disquiet. The packed exhibition, titled "Reinterpretation: a Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)," runs through Jan. 19. It features 166 works by 135 Chinese artists in media that range from paint to sculpture to video recordings of models dressed up as bathroom tiles. Walking the exhibition's three floors is like visiting a classroom of precocious children: each energetic piece insists...
...businessmen who now lead Hong Kong are far too concerned about how they are perceived in Beijing and not sufficiently bothered about local public opinion. Both views add up to a sense of continual official bungling, underlined by a failure to appreciate just how this fecklessness causes communal disquiet...
...hasty document grab, claiming the right to exclusive access - and, apparently, also, the right to leak chosen bits - won't have helped U.S. efforts to maintain consensus at the Security Council. UN officials and other Security Council member states expressed disquiet Tuesday at the U.S. action, and vowed to complete their own security review in order to get the document to the full Council by next Monday...
...bring your dead wife to work Day on planet Solaris. When reports of disquiet seep from a manned space mission, Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is sent to find out what went wrong. Beautifully wrong, for all the passengers have been infected with a palpable vision of someone they have loved and lost. Waking to find a perfect facsimile of his late wife (Natascha McElhone), Kelvin soon surrenders to what seems like a gift from the grave. Steven Soderbergh's remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's science-fiction classic, based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, can't touch the 1972 film...