Word: surrounds
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...Worth it? You betcha. Since even our big-screen TVs and surround-sound speakers can't do them justice, jaw-dropping effects are one of the only things that will get audiences off the couch...
...result of the raids, wedding coordinators are now offering cake, a band and beefy security guards. On the day of the wedding, the coordinator shows up with a handful of men--dressed discreetly in suits and ties, with walkie-talkie earpieces--who surround a private home. Often the guards use cones to set up a roadblock down the street, so that if police arrive there will be sufficient time to warn those inside. In many cases, the wedding coordinator is able to fend off the police with an ample bribe (cash or cases of alcohol, which can later be resold...
...dedication to keeping her in the frame. Overhead lights flicker and spin like lighthouses—with every illumination, we get only still, wide shots of the action. Through the strobing we see Feist’s body mimicking the rotation of the light beams that surround her, and despite the confusion, we can still manage to make out the tectonic plates that are her wondrous cheekbones. Hers is an almost violent beauty, impossible to resist...
...That poverty may be ubiquitous, but so is the energy. Teeming, corrugated-iron slums surround decaying Art Deco mansions. Lush bougainvilleas peek from behind high stone walls trimmed with barbed wire. Chapels hear confession in the middle of decadent shopping malls, and hand-painted billboards advertising movies like Brazen Women overlook vendors touting T-shirts that read JESUS OF NAZARETH. At stoplights, peddlers tap on your window proffering newspapers and Marlboro Reds, while children wave garish feather dusters and delicate lace handkerchiefs. And wherever you go, there is music, in the endless strips of "videoke" lounges, pouring forth from bars...
...such weapons should be a Congressional priority. Background checks must be thorough and make use of all available resources—they should not be “instant” enough to be completed in 15 minutes. Finally, the federal government must end the indefensible exceptions that surround gun shows, where in many states there is no waiting period. At this critical juncture, it is essential that Democrats in the House and the Senate not back down from pursuing tougher gun control legislation. The killings at Virginia Tech have shown us the costs of a society awash in guns...