Word: firmament
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps for that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders of two French far-right parties, have...
...them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps for that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders of two French far-right parties, have...
...firmament of international antiglobalization activists, South Korea's militant farmers are superstars. Organized with military precision and armed with an almost suicidal disregard for personal safety, Korean farmers have repeatedly clashed with police, most recently at a Nov. 15 protest in Seoul where over 100 were injured. So when Hong Kong announced that 9,000 police officers would be on duty during the Dec. 13-18 World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, it's safe to say that they weren't posted to protect the city from the Philippines Domestic Helpers General Union. Some 2,000 South Koreans were scheduled...
McCartney knows that he didn't rise to his place in the pop firmament by pushing the envelope. "I'm not a rebel," he says. "In actual fact, I'm pretty straight, and I don't mind at all that people see me that way." Still, he seems to have turned a musical corner. When he thinks about the U.S. tour he will launch Sept. 16 in Miami, he says, "It'll be great not to be out there with a crap album, singing songs I don't care much about." And if audiences still mostly pine for another roundelay...
...spit out. Unlike rock fans, most of whom are attracted to the music's fusion of styles, a large number of country fans take it upon themselves to enforce a vague (and deluded) notion of genre purity. Acts that other listeners take for granted as part of the twangy firmament, from Willie Nelson to Shania Twain, are often disparaged for their perceived experimental perversions--not enough fiddle, too much navel--with a prim cruelty that would not be out of place in an Edith Wharton novel. "One of the subjects of debate on our message boards is always...