Word: interrupters
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...Blair had made the same charge, he would have been heckled into the floorboards during Question Time. He nearly was anyway, but when he arrived at the Capitol he was treated to America's upside-down version of that ritual, in which members of Congress interrupt only to show how much they fancy you - and they fancy Blair a lot. His arrival was greeted with whistles and applause. Eager faces full of laughter greeted his smallest quip, but more impressive were the church-service nods that broke out among the crowd when he talked about America's place in history...
...nearly was anyway, but when he arrived at the Capitol he was treated to America's upside-down version of that ritual, in which members of Congress interrupt only to show how much they fancy you - they did so 31 times in his 35-min. speech. Blair's arrival was greeted with such whistles and applause his opening line could have been: "My fellow Americans...
...doesn't take long for the war to interrupt our reverie. At dusk, gunfire erupts from Al Shifaniyah as a Black Hawk flies low overhead. An hour later, Staff Sgt. Scott Fountain snaps open the company radio. "Rock 6, Rock 6. Two men walking across the bridge, something in their hands." Illuminated rounds are sent up, the two men hit the ground and don't move. After watching them for half an hour on his Bradley's thermal scanner, Captain Melendez orders several bursts of rounds over their heads to scare them off. It works. The men slink off down...
...hanged the next day. But even interviews with minders present have given a lot of information. Our people are scientists. There is a limit to how much you can lie between two people who are competent in the field. The Iraqis certainly misused this. The minders would interrupt. They'd say, No, you're wrong; you remember wrongly there. That's why we say it should be private interviews. But it's very hard to get to that under conditions that give full credibility...
...champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history, I interrupt to ask: "Don't you find it strange to be riding in the car of the most reviled woman in China?" Maggie shrugs. "Why would it be strange? She's famous?just like Jackie Chan...