Word: retreatism
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...both deplore and secretly envy the proximity that the BFCA and HFPA members enjoy with the celebrities they chronicle. At last Monday's New York Film Critics Circle dinner, I got to chat with Clooney and Bigelow and found them both warm, smart and gorgeous. But as I retreat to my rabbit hole and watch the parade of expensive, pampered flesh on the expertly produced Golden Globe show, I can thank the HPFA for aligning certain constellations - as when Sophia Loren, still statuesque and preternaturally well-preserved at 75, presented the Foreign Film award to Austria's Michael Haneke...
...Harvard Open" tournament in April and a “big shindig” with the Brown Taekwondo Club soon after. Since its inception, the Harvard club has had close ties with the Brown club, and the two groups continue to share instructors and partake in an annual retreat together...
...painful fact is that the Taliban's growing influence in the countryside has severely narrowed the CIA's field of operations. And although no one has said as much, the purpose of al-Qaeda's attack on the CIA in Khost was to force it to retreat. The agency has vowed to fight on all the harder, and it will do so. But the attack in Khost will force the CIA to draw back farther and farther behind the wire in order to protect its officers. The CIA is a civilian organization that's not built to sustain casualties like...
...retreat, that's what they want," came another...
...people wear T-shirts that brag about his surfing prowess. Obama is the only President with his name on a Nobel Peace Prize and his face melded with an image of Elvis Presley playing an ukulele in the movie Blue Hawaii. "This is a vacation place and not a retreat for Obama," says University of Hawaii political science professor Neil Milner. "On his past visits, he would visit his old haunts and because of the way Hawaii is, you can't be secluded like former president Bush would be on his ranch in Texas." The locals have their cameras ready...