Word: sandbag
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...What Nichols and his cast bring to the piece is the eloquence of gesture. Each of the actors has telling little moments: Portman's busyness with a stranger's glasses; the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes the impact of another sandbag; the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim to predator; the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols flatteringly calls Roberts "the CNN of actresses: on the closeup you actually see a crawl, noun-by-noun, adjective-by-adjective, of what she's thinking.") They keep...
Maybe it's the turquoise cool of the Euphrates, out beyond the sandbag bunkers. Maybe it's the open sky and the sunshine after days of sandstorms and cold, mud and rain. Or maybe it's simply that we're out West and moving again, rolling North up to Baghdad. But when Charlie Rock's tanks and Bradleys roar up to take over the checkpoints on the bridge Ash Shifaniyah, a feeling runs through all 170 men that today, Day 7, is going to be a good...
...last month at an abandoned Air Force base in the California high desert. Hernandez was hit while he and his Marine platoon were trying to secure a landing zone for a helicopter that was bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate. All in all, it was a rough day for the Marines. "It was very difficult...
Tauzin now views the June 12 letter as an attempt to mislead the committee. "They tried to sandbag us," says Johnson. Stewart spokeswoman Allyn Magrino refused to comment on a possible Capitol Hill appearance. If Stewart comes in for a Tauzin meeting, it will be a return engagement. In 2000, he appeared on her show to promote his Cajun cookbook, Cook 'N Tell. This time he wants to swap more than recipes...
Last week Prague prepared for war. As sirens wailed, volunteers built sandbag barricades and rescue workers went door-to-door evacuating residents and tourists. Museum curators hurried to secure paintings, rare manuscripts and other precious art objects, while appeals for donations of blood, food and clothing were broadcast over radio and television. Military rescue vehicles took up positions throughout the city. The residents of Prague were at war with the elements, as a week of heavy rains swelled the Vltava River to 35 times its average flow, swamping the metro system, collapsing apartment buildings, engulfing roads and bridges and displacing...