Word: torrent
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...Great ambition and onquest without contribution is without significance.” Sadly, Kline’s latest movie, The Emperor’s Club, is exactly that—a film that doesn’t contribute much to audience enjoyment and has little significance amid the torrent of “great teacher” movies released in the past decade. Perhaps St. Benedict’s could have done better with Mr. Holland or even Mr. Keating...
Francis opened with “Train Window,” a mellow poetic song on the album, but amplified the guitar solos in performance to build excitement. The audience responded by cheering, dancing and singing along. Francis never cut the torrent of music, never allowing a pause for applause...
...puerile fans find the similarity of their names an irresistible opportunity for humor. At a recent Ryan Adams concert in Nashville, Tenn., a fan shouted out a request for Summer of '69, a Bryan Adams song. Get it? Ryan stopped playing, insisted the lights be turned on, unleashed a torrent of expletives, dug $30 out of his pocket to give the man a "refund," then refused to start playing again until the man was banished from the venue. The fan was intercepted by the general manager and relocated to a balcony. Which raises the question: Who's more immature, Ryan...
...last Saturday, a clearly piqued President Bush called a halt to the torrent of Republican complaints, and said he'd make up his own mind based on "the latest intelligence." The intelligence, according to the more hawkish elements, points to a dangerous link between Saddam and al Qaeda. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has suggested that leaders of Bin Laden's group may be hiding out in Iraq. But other officials specified that intelligence had found that "second-tier" al-Qaeda leaders had joined up with an Islamist militia in the Kurdish-controlled north of Iraq, beyond Baghdad's direct control - although...
...word "leak" is insufficient to describe the gushing torrent of "informed" speculation over U.S. war plans filling the world's front pages. Peppered with phrases like "those in a position to know," these stories all insist that there's no longer any question of whether the U.S. will go to war on Iraq; only of how and when. This could simply be a case of "if you spin it, they will come" on the part of the hawks. A common thread to these stories is the idea that the U.S. is ready to go all the way to Baghdad alone...