Word: lid
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...death of the President blew the lid off simmering ethnic and political rivalries in the tiny Central African country. Hutu government soldiers and militia blamed the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front for shooting down the plane; the rebels and others suspected hawkish extremists within Habyarimana's presidential guard. The same night, the massacres in the streets of Kigali began as Hutu sought revenge. Eight weeks and several hundred thousand lives later, the true cause of the crash is still a mystery...
...protests and strikes have struck fear in Beijing that the authorities could lose control. A leadership succession struggle cannot be long postponed: top boss Deng Xiaoping is approaching his 90th birthday and ailing. In such an atmosphere, Beijing's chiefs will do anything they think necessary to keep a lid on disorder...
According to Gaskell, Ward investigates death in the work Lid (1993). However, the projection is really about creation and birth. The hazy image, diffused through an acidetched glass, conjures ideas of our moment of birth, and the first moments of experiencing light. Light is burgeoning, not dimming. This work follows Blanks (1990-1), three glass disks of translucent pearl blue. The reflective nature of the work encloses the image of the viewer's body in an ethereal womb. So the transition from Blanks to Lid represents the moment of birth thrusting the viewer into a new world of light...
...College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...
...aide sarcastically. "That would have been smart politics? They knew what they were doing. This is the most sensitive issue in the country. They tried to sneak it by us without a serious round-table discussion, which it obviously demanded, and they succeeded. We've tried to keep a lid on abortion stuff so we could fight one fight on it, in the health- reform debate. Now they've made that harder. You tell me who at HHS said they gave us time to consider having the decision come out the other way, and I'll kill...