Word: hollowed
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, however, called these actions "empty, hollow, gestures," and claimed that "a gang of settlers did the shooting...and Israeli soldiers later opened fire on the worshippers" (an unfounded claim since disproven by the commission of inquiry). Arafat then led a Palestinian withdrawal from the peace process...
...wine from France. Last December the so-called friends of Haiti -- the U.S., France, Canada and Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress was made to restore Aristide to power by Jan. 15. That threat proved hollow, however. Desperate to get rid of the Haiti problem without touching off a new exodus of refugees, the Clinton Administration has drifted from one version of a peace plan to another, apparently moved more by shifting public pressures than by events. Late last month Vice President Al Gore tried...
...Edzard does convey the tone of the play masterfully. Despite the hearty doese of romance, "As You Like It" revels in a misanthropic melancholy. The faceless, charmless interior sets of lobbies and corridors convey a barren, hollow grandeur, whole the bleak urban wasteland of rubble-strewn lots and disused machinery has an equally oppressive effect. London's grey skies and wan, pallid bussinesspeople, seckled with liverspots, contribute to the gloom...
Even a devoted admirer like deejay Jonathan Schwartz, though, maintains that the functioning is increasingly hollow. The act is done by rote now, says Schwartz, who is the host of Sinatra-oriented radio shows six days a week on % New York City's WQEW-AM. "The process is so machinelike: the limo drive, the placing of the tuxedo on his body by his dresser, the sip of alcohol, the psychological procession of ritualistic movement, the depth of his solitude in the middle of it all, the elaborate moat that surrounds his heart and soul -- to say it's an American...
...Brighton Beach to find the humor, the plays translate perfectly beyond the confines of setting. Simon took his experiences, and made them all of our experiences. In this female verson of The Odd Couple, that generality has deteriorated into a stereotyping which makes the rest of the play hollow...