Word: paled
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Sarkozy was of course anointed by a nice democratic margin, and his ratings (64%) should make George W. Bush pale with envy. Yet in a soft coup, Sarkozy has unhinged Article 21 of the French constitution, according to which the Prime Minister, and not the President, runs the show. Sarko is omnipresent and "omnipresident." He is his own cabinet...
...they don't? I've seen people get sick right next to me. At Ichi the Killer (2001) the guy next to me was feeling kind of nauseous from the movie. He kept turning to me pale as a ghost and saying, this is worse than Hannibal. He left before it ended...
...when they're angry. Storm fears drove oil prices up, sending more shudders through financial markets that already don't like the heat. For nearly 20 years, August has been the worst month of the year for the S&P 500. The folks at Homeland Security are pale and twitchy, recalling the mood of August 2001; the Geiger counters were out again in lower Manhattan. And as families set off for the lake or the mountains, there are bridges to cross; we are all inspectors now, wondering if the steel feels weak in this heat...
...Nicknamed the "goddess of the Yangtze," and long considered auspicious by fishermen, the pale-colored, human-sized dolphins have always been rare: a 1997 survey recorded only 14 left in the river. (A captive dolphin died of old age in a Chinese zoo in 2002). But Pfluger says human pressure pushed the baiji past the tipping point. "The main reason is overfishing. The Chinese still use unsustainable fishing methods like dynamite. There's still a lot of illegal fishing, so the dolphins were competing with humans for food...
...these cross-cultural matings warble. Philippe Claudel's pale meditation on the emptiness of suburbia is no match for Sarajevo-born American Aleksandar Hemon's moving account of an immigrant door-to-door salesman working the Chicago suburbs. France's Lydie Salvayre spins a ho-hum tale of a man with an untamable cowlick, and Rikki Ducornet responds with a limp portrait of the aging French cancan dancer La Goulue. But then, all of the writers in As You Were Saying (and their translators) contributed their services without pay. It is easy to imagine that some of the stories were...