Word: relentlessness
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...history demands that one be aware of the deeper world as well as the wider. For the period in question, America has been hydroplaning on the present, creating and devouring a culture consisting of relentless ephemera. The intellectual so-called life became deconstructionist game playing, politics became claptrap, "globalization" became internationalism for shoppers. Our superpowerhood fed feelings of omnipotence and self-righteousness (remember the "City on a Hill"?), which in turn created a false sense of immunity. On Sept. 11, airplanes crashed into two cities on a hill...
Forget sleeping through this one--you won't even want to blink. 24 (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is the most distinctive, addictive new TV series this season. As an old-fashioned thriller, it's relentless, tense and deliciously paranoiac, with more twists than a Twizzler. But it's also boldly different. Most notably, there's its clever visual signature: picture-in-picture screens that show two, three and even four different scenes simultaneously. Director and executive producer Stephen Hopkins first used the device to handle the show's many phone calls, but it proved the perfect way to emphasize...
...She’s pretty quick and she handles the puck very well,” adds freshmen forward Nicole Corriero, who played with Banfield back in Toronto. “Defensively, she’s relentless...
...strikes to pound Taliban positions without hitting Alliance troops. Until now the Taliban's front lines have been spared the weight of American bombs, but last week the U.S. unleashed 80% of its firepower on Taliban soldiers in Mazar and Kabul. There's more to come. Rumsfeld promises a relentless carpet-bomb barrage and a four-fold increase in the number of special-ops troops on the ground inside Afghanistan. "The only way to win a war is to beat the other guy," says an Air Force colonel. "So we're hitting them harder than we were before...
...this could be explained by relentless coaching and students becoming better test takers,” said Karen L. Hartke, product director of the Massachusetss Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE...