Word: statics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...world," he declared. "At long last the battle has ended. Ghana, our beloved country, is free forever." In Fodome, a small village in the eastern Volta region of the new nation, Kwame Deh, 22, and his family and friends gathered around a radio and listened through crackling static. "I felt very happy," remembers Deh. "The future was ours...
...image on the screen. To Ipek’s question of what her father is watching, the father tersely replies, “It’s snow.”Melvillean in its championing of indeterminate imagery, “Snow” makes gazing at television static the act of resistance to fixed symbolism for the 21st century.The tragedy that ensues in the National Theater when Sunay’s company stages a dated play titled “My Fatherland or My Scarf” is a cautionary tale against claiming any one political meaning...
...Fodome, a small village in the eastern Volta region of the new nation, 22-year-old Kwame Deh and his family and friends gathered around a radio and listened through crackling static. "I felt very happy," remembers Deh. "The future was ours...
...Ocean’s Insert Number Here” series. The clip moves at an almost glacial pace, apparently assuming that we’ll just be so horny to see Brad and George that we’ll want to look at them in static shots for seconds at a time. Oooh! Look, it’s Al Pacino! He is an eminent actor, right? Yeah, well, Al Pacino’s in a lot of stuff. Remember 2004’s “People I Know?” No, nobody does. Pacino does not a good...
...pipe filled with buckshot and smokeless powder, plus protruding wires. But the sender had not included a power source, which indicated to investigators that the Bishop, meant to terrify, not kill - at least not yet. Still, while the devices lacked some components, they could have exploded from static electricity or "even a transmission from a handheld radio," according to Fred Burton, a former State Department counterterrorism expert, now with Stratfor, an Austin-based private security and intelligence agency that is working in conjunction with the FBI in its investigation...