Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food laid out in the prop area before they set the table, and I just died! Come on, frozen corn? Iceberg lettuce? We're talking about the eighteenth century! But then it was fun to watch the prop guy come out and mess up the food like it had been eaten. And then once you get the distance and the camera angle, it didn't matter what was on those plates - he had the right look...
Politics is both less easily understood and more difficult to avoid than it is often given credit for being--voting is only the tip of the iceberg. Expressions of love and sex, as well as indifference and violence are more akin to the value-shaping and world-defining political process in which we are constantly engaged in, together...
...risks are remote, concern is building in both Europe and the U.S. that the mad-cow problem may be larger than it seems. This week the science journal Nature published a paper on the possibility that last year's outbreak might be only the tip of an epidemiological iceberg, and that tens of thousands of Europeans are unknowingly infected and could die from the disease. Moreover, a number of researchers in the U.S. aren't convinced that some of the same conditions that led to the mad-cow breakout in Britain might not exist here, leading to the same spread...
...this unequal, unjust, bigoted society...our rights must be maintained," said Michelle Bradley, one of the participants in the rally. "California is just the tip of the iceberg...
These three examples are the tip of the iceberg. I do not contest that these issues are not important to some people, nor do I believe that the council should not represent student issues to the administration. However, the interests represented should have a visible impact on the quality of student life. The Undergraduate Council should make tangible differences on campus that people can see--not actions that affect only those in countries thousands of miles away. The Shell Oil debacle attempted to help the oppressed workers of Nigeria, but ended up only squandering time the council could have used...