Word: painting
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...security realities of Iraq don't help the Bush reelection campaign's efforts to paint Iraq as a success story for the project of exporting democracy to the Middle East. Indeed, even the U.S. intelligence community is reportedly offering the president a gloomy assessment of Iraq's prospects. But the electorate's attention may be elsewhere, and the administration appears to have persuaded many Americans that if these bombs weren't going off in Baghdad and Basra, they'd be going off in Boston and Biloxi...
...Panicked and alleging an elaborate conspiracy by the police to extort money from him, Mehndi hid out for six weeks in friends' houses and his own New Delhi villa. When he finally showed up for questioning at a police station in the Punjabi city of Patiala, a mob threw paint at his Mercedes. "It was very scary," says Mehndi. "Like a film story, and Daler Mehndi was Saddam or Osama, moving all the time, always between midnight and 4 a.m. ... People hated...
...accuse Bush of hypocrisy often cite his stating during a 2000 presidential debate that "if we're an arrogant nation, they'll view us that way, but if we're a humble nation, they'll respect us." But that was an answer designed, says a Bush adviser, to paint Al Gore as a know-it-all and send a signal to Israel that Bush was not going to meddle in its affairs. Condoleezza Rice did promise that the 82nd Airborne wouldn't be escorting children to school, but it was the small acts of international charity and the global police...
...hard they are to sell. But along the way the thieves can devastate a delicate image. The one who snatched Vermeer's Love Letter from a Brussels museum in 1971 crammed it under his bed, leaving creases that required restoration. The Scream is especially vulnerable because it was painted on cardboard, which is less supple than canvas and also does not absorb paint as well. The slightest bend could cause pigment to flake away. If that happens, the anguished little man in Munch's picture won't be the only one who feels like screaming. --Reported by Walter Gibbs/Oslo, Lina...
...having just returned from a lengthy stay in the U.S., I was amazed by how little most Americans seem to know about the rest of the world and by their inability to see things in other than absolute terms. The most dangerous leaders--political and religious--are those who paint the world in black and white. They profess to recognize very clearly, at first sight, the good from the bad. They have absolute certainty that God is on their side. Such demagogues can be Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Democrat or Republican. But the world's challenges are not black and white...