Word: propellent
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...pieces are not working, and since even the ones that are have lengthy delays between cycles, the viewer spends a lot of time wondering when, if at all, something is going to happen. Then a cam turns, and neat little linkages make a crescent of feathers coquettishly unfurl or propel a row of knives, with sinister sexual intent, into a corresponding row of shaving brushes...
...response must be collective and international. The leadership of the United States may propel the U.N. into action, but action, but the U.N. must take overriding responsibility for the operations. Intervention will not be simple, quick or cost- free- the world has waited far too long for that. But it is necessary, right and long overdue...
...longest in the system. But as it turned out, the tale of Keron ("Keno") Thomas, 16, was not of the Honey-let's-call-that-broker-in- Westchester-this-city-really-is-going-to-hell variety. It was that other type of urban story, the kind that continues to propel big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self- starting (albeit misguided) initiative, of taking matters into one's own hands to make dreams come true...
...intolerable situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina cries out for such a military response. The response must be collective and international. The leadership of the United States may propel the U.N. into action, but the U.N. must take overriding responsibility for the operations. Intervention will not be simple, quick or cost-free--the world has waited far too long for that. But it is necessary, right and long overdue...
From the glossy surface of Indiana's prose, small but powerfully political quips often burst forth. However, these moments do little to sustain the overall ho-hum drama which is meant to propel the novel. It reads as if a Dynasty script meets "Miami Vice" in Colombia followed by the same Dynasty script meeting. "The Living End" in Germany. And this is all retold, often second-hand, by a not so reliable narrator in New York sometime later. Oh, and a serial killer lurks about the pages. This allusion seems so cliche it's forgettable, but so irritatingly contrived that...