Word: patch
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Frantic family members and blinking squad-car lights surrounded Antonio Ramirez. Knocked down by a passing pickup truck, the six-year-old boy screamed in pain as he lay on a curbside patch of grass in a south Los Angeles County barrio. For paramedics Edwin St. Andrew, 27, and Walter Tayenaka, 32, summoned to an "unknown T.C." (traffic collision), the moment was routine yet unnerving. The boy briefly lost consciousness and appeared to have broken bones. They had to move him quickly to a hospital. "You never know about kids," explained St. Andrew. "They seem to be doing well...
That diversity can make for great theater, but it is a political disaster for a nation that lacks any clear consensus. For the past eight weeks, Israel has been effectively without a government as first Labor and then Likud attempted to patch together a ruling majority. Both parties' shameless display of vote buying has reached a new low, discrediting Israeli-style democracy at home and abroad. In his Independence Day address last week, President Chaim Herzog warned that the current "political machinations make an absolute mockery of the principles of democracy." Herzog was later handed petitions signed...
Iran eager to patch things up with the Great Satan? Syria, the pre-eminent Soviet client state in the Middle East, avid for U.S. approval? Those developments sound as unlikely as . . . well, as the release of an American hostage by Lebanese kidnapers who apparently got nothing whatsoever in return from Washington. But Robert Polhill, 55, a professor at Beirut University College who had been abducted and held for three years and three months, was in fact turned loose on the streets of Beirut at the start of last week. His freedom did result from a combination of arm twisting...
...lovers' triangle that develops is the most engaging thread in the patch-work of plots woven through Cyrano de Bergerac. Here the magnitude of Connell's stage presence proves to be a double-edged sword--it tends to overshadow the other performances in the play. Supporting players Eisa Davis and Tim Krochuk give consistently strong performances, but they are only occasionally able to shine through Connell's propensity to eclipse all others who share the stage with...
...works stolen from the slightly frayed but beloved museum, built as a re-creation of a Venetian palace in 1903, have real significance in art history. Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his only seapiece, and the Vermeer Concert is, well, a Vermeer: a sublime patch of silence and visual harmony washed in pearly light, one of only 32 known works by the master. The other "Rembrandt" painting, of a husband and wife, is probably by one of his pupils; the French works -- one by Manet and several by Degas -- vary from slight to trivial. It seems...