Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gaza, aides say Arafat mockingly proclaimed himself unfazed by the prospect of Sharon's sitting across the negotiating table: "Sharon frightens Barak a lot more than he frightens me." Sharon, Arafat says, could deliver what little he promises, unlike Barak, who in the eyes of many Palestinians seems to overreach at times...
...Palestinian boy shot as his father tried to shelter him, and then erupted when seething Palestinians (whom Yasser Arafat seemed at first unwilling and then unable to control) murdered and mutilated two Israeli soldiers. Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a military retaliation, which halted his lonely reach, or perhaps overreach, for a comprehensive peace...
...with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach, they rarely drop the ball altogether, and all it takes is a quick blast like the sizzling instrumental "Spider-Gris" to get the pirogue floating down the bayou again...
...personal style. Bob Woodward has said that Deep Throat smoked a lot of cigarettes and drank a lot of Scotch. Woodward and Bernstein wrote: "He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip, careful to label rumor for what it was, but fascinated by it. ... He could be rowdy, drink too much, overreach. He was not good at concealing his feelings, hardly ideal for a man in his position...