Word: ghosts
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...officials say that's because Mugabe is now using more subtle means to ensure victory. ZANU-PF controls the electoral commission, and has closed most of the independent media outlets in Zimbabwe. The party also oversees the electoral count and voter rolls - which opponents allege are swollen with "ghost" voters. Ironically, even reforms urged by the MDC are being turned by ZANU-PF to its own advantage. Translucent ballot boxes, for instance, meant to symbolize an open voting system, will instead enable observers to see how people vote, warn ZANU-PF officials. After the last few years of state-sponsored...
...although the House Committee on Government Reform stopped short of conjuring up the ghost of Joe McCarthy in an attempt to scare Mark McGwire into admitting his once-legendary bat speed was fueled with THG and HGH, the theater—or hearing, to be official—was imbued with a sufficient sense of the surreal to make any rational baseball fan question what good could reasonably come from such staged drama...
...Ring Two is set some indiscriminate time after the “events” of the first film, when an evil ghost named Samara terrorized the viewers of her brief “greatest hits” video, a tape teeming with eerie images of death and suicide. Now, our heroine Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her morbid young son Aidan (David Dorfman) must relocate to a small Oregon town to escape the terror of Samara, who looks, more than ever, like Cousin It from "The Addams Family." While the first film yawned its way through endless exposition, particularly...
...you’ve ever seen Ghost, you’re well aware of the magic of a pot rising from the skilled hands of a potter at her wheel. Sans Demi, the sight retains its mystique—even at the wheel of professional potter Rob Barnard...
...lean towards Spanish instrumentation—rolling pianos, bongos, and the cleanly distorted guitar sounds associated with Carlos Santana—on much of “L’Via l Viaquez” and a down-tempo shift of the style on “Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore.” The breadth is impressive and serves the pacing of the 77-minute record...