Word: gulf
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...action. Softley's contemporized approach works because of the genuine erotic chemistry between Bonham-Carter and Roache, which reaches its peak at the Venice Carnival (a script addition), only to disappear completely in the one explicit sex scene (definitely a script addition), which Softley deliberately deeroticizes to show the gulf that opens between Kate and Merton. Both the sexualized metaphor of the masked carnival and the loveless sex may strike one as a bit heavy-handed, but both sequences are effective thanks to the remarkable capacity of the two actors to turn the heat on and off at will...
...this means going back to the Security Council ? as Ambassador Bill Richardson will do Thursday afternoon ? to seek stronger action. The reason for sustaining diplomatic efforts, says Fischer, is that key Gulf War allies like France and Russia still remain opposed to military action. ?The U.S. will demonstrate to the world that it has exhausted every diplomatic possibility before using force.? Then again, there can't be many steps left on that extra mile for peace...
...Given this deadline, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what will happen next. Shore leave has been canceled aboard the USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf. And according to the Turkish press, the U.S. has requested permission to use their air bases in Turkey for an air strike against Iraq. Is Saddam, the Bad Boy of Baghdad, due yet another spanking...
BELFAST: As one cease-fire draws to a close in the Persian Gulf, could another be deteriorating in Northern Ireland? A power struggle within Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has led to the resignation of 12 party members ? and more disconcertingly, two key members of the guerrilla organization appear to have defected to a breakaway movement known as Continuity...
...time in a week, those wacky Iraqis turned away U.N. weapons inspection teams - for the simple crime of including Americans. The Iraqis have yet to explain precisely why being American should impair an inspector?s ability to monitor the dismantling of weapons of mass destruction, in compliance with the Gulf War cease-fire agreement...