Word: spokenness
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...piece of the evening. Krolak, who appeared in torn jeans and an orange plaid jumper with a string of stuffed socks sewn on the back, appeared to portray the frustration and self-doubt of a dancer in today’s society. Krolak’s interaction with the spoken words of the soundtrack varied from worriedly trying to “shhhh” the recording to singing along with it, repeating the words over and over again...
...does, and as Gore himself has in many ways these past seven years. But the final war on global warming will be fought not with PowerPoint but with politics, and it will be fought in the halls of power around the world. The scientists represented by the IPCC have spoken - what we need now are passionate, even partisan political soldiers to lead the way and push the final tipping point from awareness to action...
...death for directing the brutal Anfal Campaign in the late 1980s in which thousands of Kurds were massacred by the regime, many in the notorious chemical-weapons attack on civilians at Halabjah. The sentence was upheld by an appeals court, but several Iraqi politicians, including President Jalal Talibani have spoken out against hanging Hashem. Although Talabani has consistently opposed the death penalty on principle - even in the case of Saddam Hussein - other politicians may be concerned that the execution of a respected Sunni soldier could be disruptive to national reconciliation in an Iraq deeply divided along sectarian lines...
Even soft-spoken Ginsburg belted out an aria last term. The decision to uphold a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions provoked a speculative outburst from the legendary women's rights advocate. The ban, she declared from the bench, "and the court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court...
...It’s nice to have a party grant when its sort of outlawed or spoken against by the administration,” he said. “That’s sort of icing on the cake. But we rock pretty hard anyway...