Word: relentlessness
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...Boys of Summer?" If you don't think so, there's always Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffet (right) and the Coral Reefer Band are always a safe bet for summer fun. Folk great Joni Mitchell kicked off her 12-date tour-replete with a full orchestra-last week. The relentless Sting will also be performing, on his "Brand New Day" tour...
...hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics all had a sense of sweeping emotional grandeur (when the rebels all yell "Spartacus!" it's a cheesy yet uplifting scene) which is noticeably absent from Scott's film, which is more of a relentless, almost mechanical, exercise in blood sports. The end result is a movie that's exciting yet empty, visually gorgeous yet emotionally barren. As big-budget action films go, Gladiator more than delivers the goods, but a healthy dose of heart may have helped the film produce more than just...
...Harvard baseball team has faced a powerful and relentless enemy this season-Mother Nature. She and her dastardly cohorts of rain, clouds and cold wind, have prevented the Crimson from playing six games in the past couple weeks...
...Though Sacco hasn't made the logistics of the conflict much easier to comprehend, his detailed, personal reporting does show how nationalism can lead once friendly neighbors to burn one another's houses. And even though his drawings don't offer the drama that superhero comic books deliver, their relentless flatness captures Bosnia more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour. "With a comic, you can drop the reader in there," says Sacco, 39. "It's a continued image. A photographer takes one image, but a cartoon can show you an atmosphere...
Moreover, the sanctions have only increased popular support for Hussein's regime because in response to relentless U.S. pressure, the Iraqi people have rallied behind their "fearless" leader. Meanwhile, as sanctions have decimated the Iraqi people, they have shattered the few institutions that could have harbored and sustained opposition against Hussein's government. But although the sanctions are now working in Hussein's favor, much of this turnaround is due to factors that are out of his control...