Word: distrust
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...pressure from his own congregation. Israeli security officials tell Time there is another secret Jerusalem land deal in progress for a parcel of land - also owned by the Church - next to the famous King David Hotel overlooking the walls of the Old City. Deals like that will only fuel distrust between the Church's Greek priesthood and its Palestinian lay members...
...spite of its admirable ambition, The Plot doesn't perfectly gel into a masterpiece. It suffers chiefly from a problem I have found in many of Eisner's graphic novels: a sometimes-fatal distrust of the audience. Expository dialogue, repetitious action and one-dimensional characterization make The Plot feel more like a lesson than a deeply involving story. In the biographical first third, for example, character development never goes beyond stereotype, as if giving Golovinski more than one dimension would confuse us. One scene depicts a young Golovinski stealing his mother's necklace for no apparent purpose. Presumably fabricated...
Having never spent an Easter weekend in America, I asked some friends of mine whether Good Friday and Easter Monday are national holidays like President’s Day. They looked at me in shock and then smirked as they politely informed me—knowing about my distrust of most things religious—that I was now living in a “real secular country” where religion plays no part in the state. This is one of America’s more admirable qualities, yet seems to be not quite the whole truth...
With the exception of Bulgaria, which has strong historic ties to Russia, East bloc attitudes toward the Soviet Union range from distrust to outright loathing, an attitude that stands in sharp contrast to a hunger among East Europeans for most things Western. Through much of the East bloc, youngsters wear blue jeans and dance to Western rock; purple-haired punks are seen in the streets of Warsaw and Budapest. More important, East European governments have turned to the West for the credits and technology that Moscow cannot provide, giving East Europeans a vested interest in the revival of dtente...
...They discussed Iraq of course, America and power, European distrust, Islam—its suffering and self-pity, Israel and Palestine, dictators, democracy—and then the boys’ stuff: weapons of mass destruction, nuclear fuel rods, satellite photography, lasers, nanotechnology. At the kitchen table, this is the early-twenty-first-century menu, the specials...