Word: typhooned
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...United Nations Security Council voted to bar U.N. member states from trading missile-related technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...
...crazy. Both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton had important things to say about global warming and energy independence-and the chatterati spent most of their time ignoring the messages and gossiping about the messengers. The debut of Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, served as the excuse for a typhoon of speculation about whether he was running for President in 2008. Senator Clinton's sturdy bran muffin of a speech about the environment-it read like a term paper but was filled with smart detail and inconvenient truthfulness-was almost totally ignored because the New York Times decided to print...
...reputation as the city of tomorrow, a place that will marry capitalism and cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be told, is not a particularly pleasant place during the summer. It's a steambath, and when the occasional typhoon blows through, it will rain for three days nonstop. Many of the streets simply reek as garbage rots in the oppressive heat. Most people, if they have a choice, try to avoid Shanghai this time of year...
...reputation as the city of tomorrow, a place that will marry capitalism and cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be told, is not a particularly pleasant place during the summer. It's a steambath, and when the occasional typhoon blows through, it will rain for three days nonstop. Many of the streets simply reek as garbage rots in the oppressive heat. Most people, if they have a choice, try to avoid Shanghai this time of year...
...even telegraphy of that time and place. To be sure, Annie is a part-time smuggler and full-time freebooter. But he is more observer--mainly of himself--than active participant in the life around him. Two-thirds of the book drifts by before he gets into action--a typhoon, a hijacking at sea. David Thomson, the film historian and occasional novelist, edited the manuscript and supplies (from Cammell's notes) a last chapter, in which Annie finally beds a piratical dragon lady after whom he has long lusted. Their encounter, which involves foreign objects and upturned bums, may strike...