Word: mapped
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Disillusioned with the Conservatives, but in the end even more distrustful of Labour, most voters probably would have preferred to check a box marked FED UP. That puts Britain on the same political map as much of Western Europe and North America, where a fragmented vote is steadily chipping away at ruling- party majorities. On both sides of the Atlantic, voters have been seized by a throw-the-bums-out fervor that is confounded by the lack of attractive alternatives...
...above-the- fray aloofness from the campaign, the nerve center is on the 11th floor of the same posh north Dallas office tower where his business headquarters is located. Here half a dozen Perot Group employees huddle behind the closed brown door of a war room. A wall map of Texas symbolizes the state's role as the first major petition hurdle; by May 11, Perot needs the signatures of 54,000 voters who did not participate in this year's presidential primaries...
...Will we live in the shadows of [1989 and 1990concerts by] Ziggy Marley and Suzanne Vega and actcautiously and conservatively, always fearful offailure?" Beys said in a prepared speech. "Or willwe decide to jump on a golden opportunity to putthe council back on the map and silence theskeptics...
...emotional anchor for all Zhang's films is Gong Li -- her face a map of cool insurrection, her figure proud and voluptuously Western. But Red Lantern offers other, more exalted orders of ogling. As it plays out its melodrama, it | radiates a ravishing color scheme; it delights in the symmetrical framing of gorgeous objects, human and architectural. For the Westerner, it offers a tour of exotic lands and customs: China in its last imperial gasp. How very sumptuous, you will say of the visual style -- though Red Lantern was made for an impossibly thrifty $1 million...
...become Hally's substitute father over the years, and their recollections are beautiful and moving. Fugard's language is at its best here. Sam and Hally talk about the map of South Africa Hally had to make for school--Sam remembers all the cities; they remember Sam and Willie's old bedroom and they laugh about the kite Sam made for Hally...