Word: straying
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...wonderful not to have the wars, of course. Let's not give it the evil eye. But the news industry, with all its empowering technology and air time, and its disempowering budget cuts, falls to obsessing on nonentities (like Puffy and JLo) and stray targets of opportunity, in the way that Edmund Wilson hit on almost any woman who crossed his path, including, I believe, the poor woman in upstate New York who was kind enough to give him Hungarian lessons...
...positions are by now familiar: Protesters say a U.S. bombing range located on Vieques Island since 1941, has compromised the health of islanders. The U.S. military insists the exercises are not harmful and cannot be carried out anywhere else without compromising national security. In Vieques, two years after a stray Marine Corps bomb killed a civilian security guard, the battle lines haven?t budged...
...been trying to get rid of him for weeks. But if he sweeps the challenges, even his victims, the ones who leaned on him for too long, will have to hand it to him. And we'll watch the Colbster drive away in his Brand New Pontiac Aztec, with stray bills fluttering out the windows, and we'll wave, and shake our heads. It's not like Tina and Keith are all that likable...
...take so many saccharine, happy, cloyingly idyllic tracks before going into insulin shock. As light evanescence is followed by more of the same, one yearns for some display of brutally raw feeling. Alas, sweetness and light is all that Altan has to offer, their skilled musical maneuverings failing to stray from the same emotional note. But all things told, while Another Sky may not be the pot of gold at the end of the musical rainbow, it’s still a fine piece o’ work...
Take El Chivo. His only visible virtue is rescuing stray dogs. Shambling past as the accident happens, he scoops up what cash he can find on the victims and scoops up the grievously wounded Cofi too, adding him to his little menagerie. When the dog, reverting to instinct, kills all El Chivo's other strays, he faces extinction himself...