Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about the mimes? A trio of French clowns, Les Macloma, is tiresome in its first two appearances, beguiling in its third (a snatch of music played on two balloons and a one-string violin). But John Gilkey, Quidam's emcee, is a gawky delight, especially in a dance routine with a hat rack. Gilkey knows that the body is a deft comic instrument, even as the charming Chinese girls who do the "diabolos" routine (spinning a toy on a string while prancing nonstop in short skirts and Tin Woodman hats) know how to make this precision aerobic workout seem...
...closed-door meetings of the party. "We wish and expect him to move from where he is," says Holbrooke. The challenge is not only to get Karadzic out of Bosnia but to turn him over for trial at the Hague. The U.S. could use force to arrest or snatch him, but the European allies are not on board for that, and such an effort would probably spark retaliation and bloodshed. Renewed fighting is the last thing Bill Clinton wants in an election year, so Karadzic may not be going anywhere...
...which the government refuses to implement. Plenty of people seem to care about certain policies more than enough to complain about who is in office on the basis of those policies. But relatively few complainers move much toward becoming human replacements for the dollars which a new budget has snatched--or will snatch--away from public programs and support structures. In my view, there are two kinds of political disillusionment--disillusionment accompanied by helplessness, which I came to know all too well and disillusionment accompanied by corrective action, even if only on a small scale, which I am glad...
...hope he's wrong. People who would snatch Trafalgar Square pigeons for restaurant stewpots would snatch almost any animal, no matter how repulsive--although the Queen will be relieved to hear they'd probably draw the line at corgis...
While these questions and others only received sparse airing--the issue never received enough prominence for the Buchanan campaign to snatch it up as a new theme--the deeper implications of the controversy went largely unnoticed...