Word: hazing
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Wars look better after 40 years, when the old men who were soldiers forget how frightened they were. Perhaps it is merely that survival itself takes on a golden haze: we were being shot at, but we were young, and the bullets missed. Even so, it seems strange that anyone would look back fondly at time spent as prisoner or guard in a military prison...
...been difficult to find a newborn star because outer regions of the collapsing cloud hide the new star within. Ordinary light cannot penetrate the haze. The long-wavelength infrared and radio waves produced by a warming embryonic star can pierce it, however, just as a radar signal can cut through the densest...
...hologram of a planet floating in space in Return of the Jedi. There was also a memorable one-minute sequence in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan of a barren, moonlike sphere being transformed into a living planet, complete with computer-generated mountains, oceans and blue-green atmospheric haze. But in the end, even Lucas balked at the cost. "I don't want to be in the R.-and- D. business," he said earlier this year. "It's just too time consuming and expensive." Enter Jobs, who, after leaving Apple last year with $85 million worth of the company...
They stand outside in the haze, on the balding knoll where their house rests. The trees list permanently to the north, made arthritic by the wind. Figures in a Wyeth landscape -- except for the yardarm, with flourishing skull and crossbones, that towers wickedly behind the house. In a moment the artist is off on another ramble, toward a new attic or field or relationship or controversy. More than likely, he will wander back to Betsy. She calls Wyeth "you old pirate"; he must know she is the anchor...
...Lunch is ready now," Cleckler announced with motherly firmness. After a dreamlike helicopter trip through the hot haze of sea and sky, followed by a landing on what looked like a tiny round tray suspended over an endless expanse of water, the big-city food critic was more than ready for a restorative meal. What she was not ready for was the dazzling variety of Cajun and Southern specialties, impeccably garnished and laid out cafeteria-style in a cheerful yellow-and-spring-green dining room. That bright lime green is the Keydril trademark. The company rigs are painted in that...