Word: shadowed
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When Thai lobbyists arrive in Washington Wednesday to drum up support for a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, they'll be walking in the shadow of the black helicopters. TIME Capitol Hill correspondent James Carney says congressional watchdogs against the "New World Order" are painting the IMF as their latest villain...
...described TIME's plans for special issues in which the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will be named [TO OUR READERS, Nov. 24]. In terms of pure influence and impact, the shadow of Adolf Hitler looms above all. It is difficult to find a truly significant event or situation from the middle 1930s to the early '90s that is not the direct or indirect result of, or is not in some way related to, his personal decisions. But for Hitler's war and its sequel, all the others--surely Churchill, undoubtedly De Gaulle, probably Roosevelt and maybe...
...Lion King The Broadway audience might have settled for the animated feature plopped directly (and predictably) onstage. But director and costume designer Julie Taymor wanted to create a different kind of fascination. Through puppetry, shadow figures and masks, Taymor makes her Lion King--at the renovated New Amsterdam Theater (see above)--the master of a powerful realm, ancient and African, full of ritual, magic...
Cops who have created a world governed by an unwritten code of police conduct, a shadow set of rules that guide them as they go about the gritty daily business of tracking and then trapping bad guys. The shadow rules bear little resemblance to official police procedures, but in the real world of urban policing, they prevail...
Blondie learned a lot, very quickly. Beating a suspect into a confession? O.K. Stealing from a bad guy? Fine. But he also learned that even the shadow world had its rules. "The first is, keep it in the ghetto. In the good areas, you don't go stopping people without cause," he says. "Second, you don't take money to let a criminal enterprise continue. And third, you don't frame an innocent person." Blondie says he and his crew never "planted stuff" on an innocent person. If he were that kind of cop, he insists, "then we would have...