Word: drawn-out
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...wash of innocent echo-chamber balladry, would disappear into the labyrinth of its swirling accompaniment if not for the sheer fact that it’s the album’s most beautiful adornment. Similarly, the relatively spare “No More Runnin” is a drawn-out, dreamy moment of calm on the album’s B-side, whose progression of successively hyperactive dance tracks terminates in the closer, “Brother Sport.”Debuted on the band’s last tour in long form, “Brother Sport...
Have Israelis given up on peace? It can seem that way. Polls show that more than 90% of Israeli Jews favored the blitz on Gaza. But in truth, the demise of the Israeli peace movement has been a long, drawn-out agony. Its main advocate, Peace Now, was once able to lure hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets. But after the Oslo accords with the Palestinians in 1993, the steam started to go out of the peace movement. Israelis became convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat played a double game, talking peace but battling Israelis from within...
...only winner to emerge from last year's historic presidential race. Chuck Todd has surged to TV prominence and Beltway influence since being tapped as NBC's political director in 2007. For millions of NBC and MSNBC viewers, Todd's analysis of election arcana, especially during the drawn-out Democratic primary, was an invaluable guidebook on the campaign trail. Recently named NBC's chief White House correspondent, Todd has written a book on the race along with NBC's Sheldon Gawiser, How Barack Obama Won. He spoke with TIME about where the media's election coverage went wrong, how bloggers...
Experts say some areas of downtown Chicago are most likely to recover first. But it is the areas that were just beginning to experience redevelopment, or any development, where recovery is likely to be the most drawn-out, if it happens...
...shirtless and frail, methodically straps a harness onto his back,and slowly pulls the cords to help him keep his curved, osteoporotic spine a little straighter. Most of these scenes are just short flashes of his day-to-day routines, but their telling nature makes the slow, drawn-out dinner conversations between father and daughter bearable. Wang’s film is neither extraordinary nor groundbreaking, but it certainly is enjoyable. Both Mr. Wang and Mr. Shi have tried to demonstrate the need for talking, but the audience leaves with the feeling that sometimes life’s most beautiful...