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...markings of sublimity. The opening track, titled “Black Ants in Sound-Dust,” is a synth-driven instrumental piece that opens with a bassline and one-note melody but builds to a crescendo of insistent hums, chirps and honks. The piece has a latent tension that uncontrollably bursts, and for Stereolab, whose works are meticulously arranged, it is a tantalizing development...
...homoerotic aspect is always latent in boarding school life, Colby says. With young adolescent boys in such close quarters, anyone who has hormones at a slightly higher gear or off-kilter is going to have the opportunity to perpetrate these kinds of homoerotic hazing stuff. Its an inherent defect in the system...
...There plainly is a latent streak in the administration of opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and these people want to resume testing of nuclear weapons in order to develop new ones. They believe the current stockpile stewardship program is dangerous to national security, and argue that if a small number of nuclear weapons are required to maintain U.S. national security then there should be testing and development of those weapons. But on the other side, there are those who maintain that it will be impossible to rid the world of nuclear weapons, which is the goal...
...next hurdle arrived when a cab tried to cut me off. Jay told me to floor it. “Never give in to the ‘Yellow Daemons!’” he yelled. I sensed a hint of latent road rage in my externally placid driving instructor...
...that barely latent anti-Americanism be harnessed to the cause of global climate control? The Greens in the European Parliament, decrying the White House's "irresponsible and egoistic approach to this global threat," called last week for a boycott of American oil companies like ExxonMobil and Texaco. Others, such as Stephan Singer of wwf International, think such moves are counterproductive. "American companies aren't that concerned with whether a few thousand people less buy their gas in Europe," he says. "A boycott will just let the Europeans off the hook." In fact, Europe and the rest of the world...