Word: haloing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Minister’s visits to Canada. Churchill gazes sternly out of the print. His unrelenting spirit leaps from the image in the lines of his face, in the powerful position of his stance, one hand on his hip, the other on his cane. The radiant suggestion of a halo playing about his head is a perfect example of Karsh’s use of light: most of his subjects are surrounded by dark backgrounds. Yet this use of light reaches into the luminary aspect of the strong leader who refused to back down to Hitler or endorse a policy...
...easy win as expected.And as the ball spiraled into Crimson territory, there stood senior cornerback Andrew Berry, poised as he always is to receive punts. But as the ball came down, a Tiger and a Crimson special teams player tussled and pushed through Berry’s halo and into the senior. The ball came loose and was recovered by Princeton at the Harvard 20. Yes, a flag flew, as it should when there is interference on the kick return. But as I feared in the back of my mind, the flag wasn’t for interference. Illegal block...
...Jonah Hill, who plays unfazed ignorance to a tee with lines like: '"The economy's in the toilet. Who gives a sh--? I don't care. I got so much money," and "I've never fought a war on drugs. I've never done sh-- on drugs besides played Halo 2." The zinger: "I got 19 kids. Never used abortion once." He is Superbad. This...
...That said, the almost messianic, unitive ambitions that may hang around Sen. Obama like a halo seem to pale in comparison to those expressed by his opponent’s running mate, who hopes to shift the collective consciousness altogether and to extremes. The most worrying aspect of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s résumé is not her vacillation on earmarks, and certainly not her 17-year-old daughter’s pregnancy. Rather, it’s the totalizing philosophy the governor seems to have picked...
...slipped away from the campaign trail frequently this year: in March, McCain visited Kosovo with HALO to assess progress in clearing minefields there. In June, she was in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, working with Operation Smile, the charity that helps disfigured children and on whose board she also serves. In July, she was in Rwanda, reviewing relief efforts by the World Food Programme. She plans to return to the U.S. from Georgia late Wednesday. "It's a very quick trip," she says...