Word: haystack
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...good fight to come clean when they mess up. And when they're evasive or even just slow about taking responsibility, their credibility is damaged. But for all of NATO's assurances that it is taking the utmost care to target the Serb military needle in the haystack of innocents, the reality is that Kosovo remains densely populated with civilians -- the majority of them still ethnic Albanian -- and the savagery of marauding Serb paramilitaries isn't the only danger they face...
Violins without strings are held in a playingposition by stone statues (Interlude,1998). In other instances, men hold bows as thesit away from a "haystack" of violins and play forthe Exercise of Memory (1998). OlivierMessian's "The Quartet for the End of Time,"inspired The Final Movement (1998) as itwas composed in the concentration camp. Fourmusicians sit adjacent to the ever-presentchimney. They are a reminder of the Jewishmusicians who were forced to play while newprisoners traveled to Auschwitz to perform forcedlabor or face immediate death. These men becomeswallowed by the tranquil landscape, readingnoteless sheet music, playing a soundless song...
...polished and plodding it never comes close to evoking emotion in the listener--unless you consider boredom an emotion. As for the next cut, River of Tears, it has a central metaphorical construction so lazy that one half expects the next track to be titled Needle in a Haystack. Simple, direct wordplay can work if the lyrics hit upon something primal and urgent. River of Tears, however, merely drifts away, ineffectual and insubstantial...
...nerve gas over Fort Knox can be considered lighter -- is Goldfinger (1964). Easily the best of the Bonds, and ahead of its time (sort of) with its man-hating, squadron-leading femme fatale, Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). She was a liberated woman until James tripped her up on that haystack. No Gloria Steinem, but her conversion saved a lot of lives...
...last week, fashion's famous let their wilder ideas go to models' heads. At Christian Dior, Oriental wigs covered up the famous tresses of the likes of CINDY CRAWFORD (far left). Givenchy stylists put others in hedge-like mop tops. Issey Miyake seemed to be aiming for the postmodern haystack, while KATE MOSS'S wedge (second from left) almost distracted from Chanel's most unbusinesslike bikini-and-woolen-suit ensemble...