Word: swoops
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Victims of an illegal war of choice, helpless civilians are ripped asunder by showers of bombs and bullets, while others are driven from their homes only to suffer the mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight...
...Christine and Raoul. He rages, the orchestra whips up a storm, and Schumacher's camera seems to leap off the roof, plunging headlong toward the street below. But there's no bungee jump in Butler's singing - as the camera dives, his voice musters nothing more than a gentle swoop. Despite Butler's muted performance, Schumacher's kinetic camera work and some fine supporting turns could help make the film a minor Christmas hit. But Schumacher must have been banking on his unknowns to deliver revelatory, headline-making performances, just as Colin Farrell did in Phone Booth. Alas, they...
When the interview was over and it was time for the trek home, maybe Gannon and Maasdorp did start crying, at least a little bit. Harvard still lost. They and the other seniors were done with their collegiate and probably post-collegiate athletic careers in one fell swoop. Few things, if any, could change that reality. The snow would still be on the ground when they went outside. Life would progress, whether they were athletes...
...George Bush so convinced that China would leave the bargaining table and pout if the United States facilitated bilateral talks between the Koreas? Does John Kerry have a real exit strategy for Iraq, or is he just relying on the questionable notion that the rest of the world will swoop in from the wings to aid a Kerry administration stuck with President Bush’s mess? The American people missed out on a vital layer of complexity Thursday night. And the sad part is that the debate went the way it was supposed...
...killing fields of western Sudan stretch across an area almost as big as Texas. The Janjaweed roam the windswept plains and parts of the central range of jagged, extinct volcanoes on camels and horses or in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns. Bands of 10 or 12 men swoop into a village, shoot the men and boys, rape the women, loot and burn huts and mosques, rip up crops and slaughter or steal livestock. Halima, 30, was working in her family's field in the village of Gadarra when she heard "the voice of guns" last July. "The attackers were...