Word: horning
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However, there is a trickier third contingency. It is all too easy to imagine a local conflict -- in the Balkans, the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia -- threatening to become an MRC. Foreign intervention is urgently required. The U.S. may not feel its vital interests are sufficiently threatened to take the lead, but American participation would increase the credibility and effectiveness of the operation. In such a case, the U.S. should be prepared to join a posse led by someone else...
...late 1991 Grundy resident Teresa Horn signed an affidavit swearing that another man in the county had confessed to Wanda's murder. Last March, Horn voiced her charges in an interview on a Roanoke TV station; the next day she was found dead. The circumstances have yet to be explained convincingly. Over the past three weeks, four more witnesses came forward, all with stories pointing to the same man. He denies the allegations...
Reopening a Horn of Plenty...
...MUCH OF THE PAST TWO DECADES, jazz singer SHIRLEY HORN abandoned the recording studio in favor of domesticity. But since signing with Verve in 1988, Horn, 58, has been making up for lost time, collaborating with her favorite musicians and recording her best work yet. Her latest release, Here's to Life, fulfills a lifelong ambition to record with composer-arranger Johnny Mandel. Elegantly orchestrated with strings and winds, plus Horn's delicate piano, the album features ballads, like the title track and Isn't It a Pity?, in which Horn's velvety voice virtually coos in the listener...
While some of Ferragamo's wedged shoes are sedate, others are fantastical, and a few are downright ugly. But even these, like a black-laced shoe with a prow toe shaped like a rhino's horn, work as sculpture if not as footwear. One wedged shoe made in 1938 is a kind of psychedelic homage to the raised Venetian chopines of the 17th century; it could easily have been worn by Elton John in concert...