Word: pales
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...Oratorio,” the stage is dominated by its red velvet curtain and a large chest of drawers, offering little hint of the spectacle to come. Shortly after the house lights dim, though, a voicemail message plays in French and the top-left drawer opens. A pale, lithe arm extends into the darkness, a lit cigarette in its hand. The next few minutes are simultaneously hilarious, disturbing, and beautiful, and they aptly set the tone for the rest of the show. An impossible series of limbs reach out from within the drawers to dress each other, light a candle...
...These issues pale beside the battle against radical Islam and its terrorist tactics, Bush insisted. Making his closing argument for the history books, the President declared, "America has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on our soil." And he pleaded with the country to maintain the focus. "America did nothing to seek or deserve this conflict," he said. "But we have been given solemn responsibilities, and we must meet them. We must resist complacency. We must keep our resolve. And we must never let down our guard...
...These costs, of course, pale alongside the price paid by the nearly 5,000 U.S. troops who have lost their lives in the conflicts - not to mention the wounded - and the families of all the casualties. And President Bush insists that their sacrifice and the expenditure on the wars have helped prevent a repeat of 9/11. "We could not afford to wait for the terrorists to attack again," he said last week at the Army War College. "So we launched a global campaign to take the fight to the terrorists abroad, to dismantle their networks, to dry up their financing...
...Zalathal went faster and faster. It seemed as though the staircase would never end. Felicity thought her breasts would spin off into the fiery void of their own accord. And then there was Frederick, only a few feet away, his pale, wan face upturned and shocked, his watery eyes bulging and mouth gaping like a trout, and still Zalathal did not stop. Felicity charged over her husband. She heard the triumphant crunch of bone, the satisfying curtailment of her husband’s prayer as Zalathal’s powerful hoofs crushed his throat...
...lane highway between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, lined with slim, pale poplar trees and winding past spectacular Himalayan mountains, has witnessed every chapter of the decades-old conflict between India and Pakistan over the divided territory of Kashmir. It was built for commerce: trucks carried apples from the surrounding orchards and handicrafts to markets in undivided India and beyond. Then in the 1990s, it became a highway of hatred, with buses transporting angry young men from Srinagar, capital of the Indian portion of Kashmir, to border towns, where they crossed to militant training camps, many of them in Muzaffarabad, capital...