Word: somber
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...That resonates with the party rank and file as well. "We need to renew," says Daria Kapnick, 24, a law student who joined a crowd of somber Martin supporters at Buffet Sorrento in Montreal on election night. "We have potential. Now we need to explore it as a party." Memo to all Liberal hopefuls: she just might have a point...
...Washington's hopes of salvaging some kind of Arab-Israeli peace deal by the end of President George W. Bush's second term. Having hitched their strategy to the success of Sharon's policy of separation from the Palestinians, Administration officials scrambled to put a positive spin on the somber events in Jerusalem. "The desire for peace, the desire for a stable relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, is one that runs wide and deep in the Israeli society," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last Thursday. A senior State Department official says the U.S. believes that "progress is still...
...City, this is the first time viewers can sample in one place the entire career of one of Japan's most important artists. The exhibition is long overdue not just because it highlights his consistently excellent work, but because it showcases a somewhat neglected version of modern Japanese art?somber, contemplative, melancholy and utterly different from the fun but shallow Day-Glo Superflat school popularized by neopop superstar Takashi Murakami and his look-alike minions...
Thirty-three months and 2,155 American military deaths ago, a somber President Bush addressed the nation in prime time from the Oval Office and announced that the nation's military had begun ?to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger? from "an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder." On Sunday night, Bush made his first Oval Office address to the nation since then, and was in the extraordinary position of admitting that the war is difficult, while arguing that we?re not losing. He went...
...followed Burns’ lead in providing a hand-clap accompaniment. The explicitly political “All Systems Red” ended with a burst of crash cymbal, driving bass, and squealing guitar, providing a wall of noise that accentuated the frustration of Burns’ lyrics. This somber spirit of protest was countered by an extended version of “Güero Canelo,” featuring high, rolling trumpet solos, Richie Valens-esque guitar, and a dance-happy Spanish tenor named Salvador Duran, ending the set on a lighthearted high. As Calexico left the stage...