Word: tinning
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...selection of comical shorts, some of which featured Conrad himself in front of the camera. French filmmaker Marie Losier, who directed Conrad in some of these films, was also present.Many of the shorts depicted absurd situations and had a trippy feel. In one, actors emerged from a metal tin of spaghetti wearing pink dresses and were doused in tomato sauce. Then, the container blasted off into space like a spaceship. The silliness of such films, which contrasts with the avant-garde formalism of his earlier projects, was a point of interest for the audience. In the question-and-answer session...
Yalokole is a town of grass-roofed huts on the edge of the Kokolopori forest, erected around a giant termite mound on which sit two wooden talking drums--still the only way to communicate long distance in central Congo. Close by, in Yalokole's mud-floor, mud-wall, tin-roof church, Tusumba is giving a speech...
...exquisitely crafted paragraphs. They weave the paragraphs together into a near perfect article, essay or review. Then their writing--their baby--is ripped untimely from their computers (well, maybe only a couple of weeks overdue) and turned over to editors. These are idiots, most of them, and brutes, with tin ears, the aesthetic sensitivity of insects, deeply held erroneous beliefs about your topic and a maddening conviction that any article, no matter how eloquent or profound or already cut to the bone, can be improved by losing an additional 100 words...
...Harare township of Warren Park, for the first time that anyone can remember, political graffiti has begun to appear on clapperboard walls and the backs of tin sheds. Alongside election posters for Robert Mugabe, unseen hands scrawl messages to the President. "Chinja Maitiro" reads one: "Change Your Way." Another declares: "Zuakwana," meaning "Enough." Nearby, a picture of the 84-year-old Zimbabwean leader has been defaced with blood-red tears and underneath is written the word: "Cheat." These are ominous signs for the despot who has ruled Zimbabwe for 28 years. But there are other, more urgent ones emerging elsewhere...
...Tin-Yun Ho ’07 came across an article through Google News that profiled a civil affairs officer stationed in Iraq. The officer had sent a letter home to family and friends asking for school supplies that could go to local Iraqi students...