Word: heapings
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...country's Participating Police Force (PPF). Composed of officers from 11 Pacific nations, it's the law-and-order arm of the intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, that arrived two years ago to save a country heading for the scrap heap. Solomon Islanders were being killed and brutalized by rival militias, while a corrupt political and bureaucratic class, and a rogue Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) force, either stoked the hate or failed to stop...
...ages. "The prospect towards Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with the crumbling remains of gardens, pavilions, and burying places," wrote British traveler William Franklin in 1795. "The environs of this once magnificent and celebrated city appear now nothing more than a shapeless heap of ruins...
That should have been enough to consign Tuttle to the scrap heap of history, though you suspect that even there he would have had fun with the scraps. But his fragile art, with its flickering pulse, has turned out to be durable. Three decades later, he's the subject of "The Art of Richard Tuttle," a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) that sends you home with your senses briskly reconditioned. After it closes in San Francisco on Oct. 16, the exhibition goes on the road for two years, heading first to the Whitney--talk about...
...Hur” had Jesus, “The Fast and the Furious” had Vin Diesel; Lohan and the apparently-possessed Volkswagen known as Herbie are, perhaps, heroes for our time. The plot, in which a disgraced Herbie is reluctantly rescued from the junk-heap and proceeds to reclaim his former glory as an unlikely racing star, is cute enough...
...campaign against summitry and all it stood for. He wanted the U.S. to negotiate less and compete more. He devoted much of his first term to denouncing the Soviets for their misdeeds, calling on the free world to mount a "crusade" to cast Marxism-Leninism onto the ash heap of history, punishing Moscow's expansionism through a global counterattack on its clients, which became known as the Reagan Doctrine, and unveiling a Strategic Defense Initiative that would, at least as he conceived it, disarm the Evil Empire by dint of Yankee ingenuity...