Word: loudnesses
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...Hirst is assuming his buyers know the Bible story about worshipping a false god, just like the one they are about to worship.) But the beast is best seen in profile, the view that leaves you to reconcile as best you can his hieratic gravity with the laugh-out-loud abundance of his genitals. When Hirst is good, he's good, and The Golden Calf is a nimble concoction, designed to all at once beguile, flatter and parody the big-swinging billionaires who are likely...
...Princeton political-science wonk. But the book's real payoff is what it brings to our understanding of contemporary conflicts that have been justified on humanitarian grounds, from Somalia to Kosovo to Iraq: context. "All of the major themes of today's heated debates about humanitarian intervention ... were voiced loud and clear throughout the nineteenth century," Bass writes. "They knew things then that we have forgotten...
...high school where he teaches drama. He's adored by two misfit students, the gushing Epiphany Sellars (Phoebe Strobe) and the not-yet-aware-of-his-own-gayness Rand Posin (Skylar Astin). The other kids, including a bunch of Latinos bused in from another school, treat Dana with loud contempt, and the principal is ready and eager to close down the Drama Department, i.e. Dana. His grand idea has been to stage productions of old hit movies - Erin Brockovich played by teens - which are routinely panned by the local critic, another student at the school. No one cares...
...resourced Indian police dealing daily with rapes and murders, missing-child reports are a low priority. Zabeen's and other cases were uncovered by chance in 2005, after two men became involved in an argument in a Chennai slum bar and loud accusations of child stealing reached the ears of police. The men, Sheikh Dawood and Manoharan, and two women, Sabeera and Nawjeen, were arrested...
...learned, speaking about faith in a genuine way can be difficult. "If he tries to go out on that stage and be Billy Sunday, he's going to bomb," cautions one conservative religious leader. "If he's not comfortable saying 'Jesus lives in my heart,' then for crying out loud...