Word: lente
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When the Ottoman empire of the mid-19th century started coming apart at the seams, Russia's Czar Nicholas I memorably dubbed it the "sick man" of Europe. Last week, the empire's successor, Turkey, reeled in political chaos as its own sick man, Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit - who suffers from a host of ailments linked to a chronic neurological disease - stubbornly clung to power. With Ecevit's three-party coalition teetering on the brink of collapse, his Democratic Left Party (D.S.P.) essentially split in two and parliament in recess, Ecevit, 77, defied a growing chorus of demands...
...terrorist attacks, U.S. museums and private collectors were reluctant to let their prized paintings go to Europe by air, and many refused to take the risk. But the exhibit's curator, William Hauptman, had a convincing argument: he told museums and art owners that if the paintings were not lent, American Impressionism would remain unknown to European audiences...
...bigger one," a tribal chief told Treasury Secretary PAUL O'NEILL when traditional headgear didn't fit him as well as it did BONO, his companion on a trip to Africa. "No," said U2's singer, "just a bigger brain." The modest rocker, who has lent sparkle to the cause of African poverty relief, brought O'Neill on a 10-day fact-finding journey that started last week in Ghana. The unlikely pair will travel through South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. O'Neill played the straight man; Bono did comic relief. O'Neill drilled vendors on their moneymaking to figure...
...used to be that Governors rarely went on TV to sell anything other than their state's beaches and casinos. But a number of state leaders who happen to be up for re-election this year have lent their faces to an array of public-service ads for popular state programs. Critics insist that the spots--funded largely by taxpayers and featured prominently on TV, radio, billboards and other media--amount to thinly disguised campaign ads. A gallery of gubernatorial thespians...
...acclaim of Griffith's masterwork made his virulent, derisive depiction of blacks all the more toxic - indeed, potentially epidemic. This was not simply a racist film; it was one whose brilliant storytelling technique lent plausibility and poignancy to images of crude Negroes in the Reconstruction Senate, and of a black man pursuing a white woman until, to save her virginity, she throws herself off a cliff. Viewers could believe that what they saw was not only historically but emotionally true. "Birth" not only taught moviegoers how to react to film narrative but what to think about blacks...