Word: fallenness
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...does not own any Transformer dolls. I'm sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust...
...quiet it is. Nothing above a murmur. No one moves. The Falun Gong's silent protest in Beijing in 2005 has nothing on us. Today's theme, captured in hundreds of handmade signs, is sookoot e sabz, or "green silence." We are here to mourn the fallen, those several who have died in the past few days at the hands of the reprehensible basij, the volunteer paramilitary gangs who back Ahmadinejad. The chants that played such a prominent role prior to the elections and which peep out here and there are contained by the "shuushes!" and "quiets!" of the crowd...
...with a tripod-mounted camcorder. The state takes pictures of us. We show them, in turn, photos of what they have done. Many hold up the pictures of the wounded and killed, gruesome images of blood-covered chests and heads, the young and the middle-aged who have fallen. There is an overhead picture of a plainsclothes basiji rushing at a protester with some kind of club, perhaps even a knife. His face is clearly visible. Some of these pictures have the word "killer" scribbled on them. (See pictures of Tehran's terror in plain clothes...
...capacity instigated in late 2008. Management bonuses have been shelved. Unpaid leave and temporary or permanent part-time work, meanwhile, have been on the table since last month. And talks with unions are continuing over how to squeeze staff costs still further - BA's head count has already fallen by 2,500 since last summer. (Read "British Airways: Cabin Pressure...
...Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) is an angel of mercy, we quickly learn that she is, in more ways than one, a fallen one. And she is one of the most interesting people you're likely to meet on TV this year...