Word: morphs
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This time the sacred monsters must battle not only their fellow-mutant nemesis Magneto (Ian McKellen) and the morph-o-matic Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) but also a figure familiar from a quillion adventure movies--the steely sicko military renegade. Stryker (Brian Cox) is an ex-Army conniver who would use X powers to evil ends and has a kung-fu cutie named Oyama (Kelly Hu) to kick start any fight. Stryker must contend with a late recruit to the coalition of the thrilling: Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), whose powers include walking through walls, vanishing in a plume of fume...
Maintaining democracies that are cooperative members of the world community is not always easy. The current situation in Venezuela proves that democratic leaders can quickly morph into tyrants, and abuse their own people. Battles can also erupt between people of various ethnic groups within a nation—a situation that the world witnessed most recently in the Balkans. Fundamentalist Islamic groups also may pose a grave challenge to the stability of a newly forged democracy, just as they now constantly challenge the legitimacy of Pakistan’s regime...
...Sun” sets the tone for the rest of the album, working gradually from silence into frantic tribal beating that is suddenly interrupted by Elvrum’s acapella bleat. Abrasive feedback makes the transition into “Solar System,” only to morph into the welcome sounds of a running river and melodic, lightly strummed guitar. The album’s climax hits with the title track, where layers of dramatic vocals mix with jarring drum loops in an almost sacred blend that recalls Radiohead’s Kid A. Like that unconventional and somewhat...
...Europe and Asia by dialing into a 24-hour call center. But of course, many of today's expensive accessories were once seen as purely functional; think of the wristwatch. Still, you don't strap your phone to your skin - not yet. Vertu president Nigel Litchfield predicts phones will morph into jewelry, from earrings to - calling Dick Tracy - wristwatches. Until then, we're a little wary about plunking down several months' salary for a phone we're still going to leave in the back of a cab. - By James Ledbetter Watches to watch out for By rights, this should...
...bellicose and autocratic style that many fear could eventually evolve into a left-wing dictatorship like Cuba's. Chavez recently threatened to seize businesses that close for whole days to protest his erratic government. His neighborhood organizations, the Bolivarian Circles, do aid the poor, but they sometimes morph into armed gangs like the ones caught on videotape shooting at opposition civilians just before the coup. And though a recent Venezuelan Supreme Court ruling that exonerated the military officers who led last April's coup was dubious, it's hard to image that Lincoln - or Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century "Liberator...