Word: loudnesses
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...western coast of Venezuela. The Paraguaná facility processes more than 700,000 bbl. of crude each day for the state-owned oil monopoly, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), while tankers line up on the Caribbean horizon to ship it around the world. Towering burn-off pipes, as loud as jet engines, shoot flames above giant posters of President Hugo Chávez. His fist raised, he roars, "Of course...
...from one underappreciated writer to another: Shout it loud and clear. Don’t ever let Big Media rob you of those hard-earned DVD royalties. Stand up for the inalienable right to “higher minimums for the Internet and other nontraditional media, including Article 14 hyphenates.†Keep clutching those picket signs in your well-manicured hands, and never lose faith in the TV addiction of your fellow countrymen...
...expect loud, rousing rallies in all three early voting states when Oprah Winfrey comes to town with her friend Barack Obama in early December, with gobs of media attention, raucous crowds, emotion and great pictures. But don't expect those events to do anything productive to allow Obama to get over the biggest hurdle standing between him and the White House. American voters are not looking for a celebrity or talk show sidekick to lead them. Obama is an intelligent and thoughtful potential President, but Winfrey's imprimatur is unlikely to convey those traits to many undecided voters...
...available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons who don't "speak easy" escorted to the clearly labeled exit...
...stigmatization of personal experiences. Merely, public debate is most productive when it is not distracted by protracted anecdotes.Still, there exists a perverse preoccupation with “sharing our stories†and “putting a face†on an issue. For proponents of the loud and proud pro-choice movement, this means discussion of abortion in political arenas cannot be effective without emotional narratives from women who’ve experienced abortion. Yet keeping what is personal private does not run counter to a movement. In fact, there is something contradictory about tying personally speaking...