Word: shrouds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is more true overseas than in the UnitedStates, where the combination of domestic mediascrutiny and publicity campaigns by other collegestend to remove the shroud of mystery surroundingHarvard...
...reader of PEOPLE, but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what Mavis Leno looked like. The wife of Jay Leno is an aggressive homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women...
...UNSCOM's shroud of respectability was further shredded last week when the Washington Post reported that U.S. spies used the U.N. Special Commission arms-inspection agency as cover for Washington's solo espionage efforts. For three years, U.S. intelligence operatives tapped into Iraqi military communications without the knowledge of UNSCOM, the international team of arms controllers dedicated to hunting down and eliminating weapons that Iraq had pledged to destroy following its defeat in the Gulf...
...demands of campaigning would make it impossible for her to cash in right away by writing a memoir. And with the trial of her former Little Rock law partner Webster Hubbell set to begin in June, Hillary hasn't fully emerged from the shroud of investigation just...
This scene--of a wraithlike pestilence casting a monochrome shroud over the pastel-painted Egypt and insinuating itself through the doors of the condemned--is splendidly eerie. It makes a compelling argument for the Exodus story to be told in the unique language of animation. The film's colors and textures are handsomely diametrical: the cool elegance of Pharaoh's palace as opposed to the burnished warmth of the Israelites' huts and, more daringly, the angular Jewish features against the Africanized Egyptian...