Word: prowled
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Seattle boasts four thriving independent record labels; six key music clubs, like the Vogue, in the downtown area alone; and nearly that many recording studios. Representatives of rival record companies prowl the streets in major- label wolf packs, looking for the next bust-out band: Heard War Babies yet? Checked out Mudhoney? Get on it, and get with it. As Steve Slaton, regent of the local deejays, puts it, "Seattle seems to be the center of the musical universe. It's just the real deal...
Second, with today's shark-like journalists constantly on the prowl for the next Gary Hart, no one--especially not a Rhodes Scholar like Clinton--would run for the White House and expect to get away with flagrant, numerous or recent affairs, much less illegitimate kids...
However that comes out, the contretemps spotlights a broader problem: only the unprecedented rights to prowl everywhere and look at anything in the country that the U.N. gained because of the cease-fire have enabled it to expose Saddam's cheating. If Iraq had to contend with just the regular inspections of known nuclear facilities, required by the 1970 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it signed, it might be well on the way to reviving a bomb-building program that allied bombing was intended to interrupt. As recently as last November, IAEA inspectors toured the nuclear facilities Baghdad acknowledged possessing...
HEALTH Food and drug companies beware: the FDA is on the prowl...
...headlines and TV bulletins about a "Wolfman" on the prowl eventually force Parker to face what he has committed. There is some macabre humor in this recognition; understanding that he is in fact a carnivore, the former health-food addict starts gorging on junk. But somewhere around this point, Theroux begins a tour de force portrait of character disintegration, meticulously detailed and utterly convincing. A clearer sense of who Parker was before he fell apart might have made Chicago Loop a clearer, more uplifting admonitory tale; the scariest possibility is that the anti-hero was no one at all until...