Word: prop
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...light-hearted moments. Bush always tries a little too hard to remind those watching at home that he's one of the boys; his penchant for broad one-liners and his reflexive "heh-heh-hehing" has earned him the nickname "Shecky-in-Chief" from some. Today, there was prop comedy from NBC's David Gregory, who had to extricate himself from his microphone cord only to be teased, "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." After a slightly rocky start, Bush even felt bold enough to mockingly chastise one journalist's query about...
...would see us later that afternoon, at another secret camp. Emblyn and I hiked to a nearby village that had a public telephone. Eventually, we got the cell number of Ramo's Colombian pilot. It turns out that while in flight over the Caribbean, the single-prop had conked out. Ramo and the pilot together got it re-started as it plummeted toward the water (shark-infested, of course!) and managed to make an emergency landing in a different cow pasture - about 50 miles away, in rebel territory. There was no way Ramo would make it to the Casta?o interview...
...illegal drug economy - which some analysts estimate is equivalent to half the country's official gdp - corrupts its politics, and finances the Taliban's recruitment of the unemployed and its purchase of high-quality weapons. President Karzai is highly regarded by the foreign politicians who are trying to prop up his government - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called him an "extraordinary leader" on a lightning visit to Kabul in June - but instability and unkept promises have sapped his appeal at home. New hospitals and schools stand half finished because money has run out, or because aid agencies have removed...
...coalition forces, but they take 24 hours to arrive. How are they supposed to provide security under those conditions?" On top of this is a paradox at the heart of ISAF's strategy: a decision to overlook poppy cultivation, even though the opium trade is a central prop of the Taliban. But an eradication program would suck ISAF into a grinding war with locals who have no other way to earn a living. All that leaves NATO governments in an awkward bind. They have had to acquiesce in the Pentagon's proposed drawdown of some 4,000 U.S. troops from...
...actors’ adroit work is bolstered by a well-calculated set design: no prop, from TVs to teacups, is without purpose. The repetitive techno-remix score follows the same path, deliberately building tension—at least, when Madonna isn’t singing. However, the costumes are the production’s piece de resistance; to imagine the maids without them is to imagine Roxanne without her red dress...