Word: melt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combination of a traditional and classic. The bottom was more round, while the top was more sculpted, with muscles. A Globe photographer took a picture of it. You know, even though the snowmen melt, you always have the picture. I think artists should work in conjunction with photographers. It's like clouds, or even people--people die, and all you have left is pictures. So if you think about it, the snowman is really a metaphor for people...
...various little snowmen clad in black top hats, red scarves, corn cob pipes and overflowing bags of ice. Unable to resist the vast gleaming white sides of the ice cabin, crafty taggers continuously sully the innocent snowmen with black spray paint. Not only a last-minute resource for party melt-downs, the structure also acts as a billboard for the company's other products such as 40 pounders, Dry Ice, Cocktail Ice and the legendary Booze Luge, all of which can be delivered with the ease of a phone call...
...province last Wednesday, when they persuaded Albanian guerrillas to free eight Serb army soldiers, but by the end of the week 45 ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces in the south. The White House fears the two sides will be in a full-scale war when the snows melt. "The hottest spot in the world this spring is going to be Kosovo," says a senior U.S. official...
...troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm Western action, Holbrooke's cease-fire will likely melt away with the winter snows. Memo to President Clinton: You may want to drop that "Peace in the Balkans" item from your State of the Union list of foreign policy achievements...
...captive soldiers, the respite may be temporary. ?The reason for the lull in fighting is less because of the cease-fire than because of the weather,? says Anastasijevic. ?The issues underlying the conflict remain unresolved, but it?s difficult to fight in minus-20-degree temperatures. When the snows melt in a month or two, the war will probably resume.? And that will put Washington right back in its Balkan bind...