Word: salvoes
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...9/11, does Bush have to prove some connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, or is it enough that since that day, Americans have the dark imagination to see what an enemy can do to destroy us? With each new speech, each meeting with congressional leaders, each Op-Ed salvo, the Administration is speaking to a curious and conflicted public. Is this war really necessary? Do we have to fight it now? Will we have to fight it alone? And will starting a war have consequences like more terrorist attacks at home and abroad...
...maximum alert in Jerusalem at the very moment when a bomb planted in a campus cafeteria and detonated by cellular phone killed seven people and wounded 86. And even before the blood had been cleaned away, Hamas warned that Wednesday's carnage was but the first of a salvo of attacks planned to avenge the Gaza strike. Israel isn't sitting back and waiting for the sequel - Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer immediately authorized retaliatory strikes by the Israeli military, which are expected in the hours ahead. And those, no doubt, will leave Palestinian radicals with more "martyrs" of their...
...first salvo in this war for hearts and minds will come before Blair's plane takes off for Texas, when the British government will issue a detailed dossier about Saddam's secret weapons programs. A draft is now circulating in Whitehall. There is internal debate about how much secret intelligence to divulge, but the document will emphasize how persistently Saddam has tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction (wmds), nuclear bombs in particular. "It's very good," says one official who has seen...
...morbidity and somberness" creeps into his later work, says De Salvo. Though his paintings preserve the beautiful youth of Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli, in his self-portraits Warhol recorded his own hollow eyes, leathery skin and flagrantly artificial hair. De Salvo sees the preoccupations of someone growing older. She admits, though, that he feared death and was terrified of going back into the hospital, having been seriously injured in 1968 when he was shot by an unbalanced feminist...
...frantic social life among the glitterati continued to the end. But De Salvo wanted to avoid "fetishizing the celebrity persona at the expense of looking at the work," preferring to present him as any other painter. Warhol, Pop Art pioneer, didn't live to see his prediction about fame come horribly true. He died unexpectedly in 1987 following a gall-bladder operation - in a hospital. He claimed his work was all surface and described himself as "deeply superficial." But somehow he raised shallowness to new heights...