Word: paled
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...political third criterion makes the technical problems of the shield pale. When Clinton visits Moscow on June 4 for his first summit with President-elect Vladimir Putin, he wants to make headway on an accord both to slash U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,500 and 2,000 and to amend the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 to allow the U.S. to begin building a national missile defense. Instead he may be staring at the collapse of practically every major arms-control treaty...
ARRESTED. MOMCILO KRAJISNIK, 55, top Bosnian Serb war leader; by NATO troops; on war crimes charges, including genocide; in Pale, Bosnia. He pleaded not guilty in the Hague...
...spoken letters all desperately trying to make sense of a violence too heinous for language. But what takes the place of these lost elements is equally intriguing. The Ohio State Murders in its current production is a lyric exploration of emptiness, an absolutely breathtaking amalgam of hauntingly lonely lighting, pale-colored costumes and a score that's downright chilling in its simple beauty. (Kudos to John Ambrosone, Viola Mackenthun and Christopher Walker for their respective designs.) Underneath the surface, however, this enrapturing meditation on emptiness is really a study of absence. Forced absence. The only books on stage...
...front of me at the back of the line. "It is so cold," said one to the other. Of course it is, honey. You are barely over five feet, barely over rattles and Gerber, and you are wearing nothing but a tiara, neon pink flowing genie pants, a pale pink almost see-through top, and a pimply, large-panted freshman boyfriend. Of course, the boyfriend responded to the statement spoken to the girls friend as an invitation for action. "Don't worry, baby. I'll keep you warm," followed by a sloppy kiss and a scrawny arm around her body...
...first year, "you and your classmates have short cropped hair and are pale," he says. "The second-year men are men--they're big and burly and hairy...