Word: undercutting
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Unfortunately Baker undercut the logic of his new position by saying that if Sihanouk insists on maintaining his unholy alliance with the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. will go along. Sihanouk, in turn, says he will continue to reserve a place for the Khmer Rouge in the coalition as long as the Chinese insist on it. So on this key issue, Washington is taking its lead from Beijing. The aging tyrants responsible for the massacre in Tiananmen Square are, with American acquiescence, bestowing respectability on the butchers responsible for the killing fields...
...fisherman is lucky, the passion becomes manageable, second nature, like tying knots in the dark or reading a deep green pool by an undercut bank and knowing where the trout are holding and which fly to use. But having gone through the novitiate, fly-fishermen are never the same again. They scan rivers and lakes, seeing water but imagining the life underneath. They concentrate for hours, zenlike, watching thunderheads build and billow above, gazing at streams running over moss-covered rocks, searching for the sight of a trout, that near perfect fish, as it fins and darts, drifts and feeds...
That's treacherous turf, rocking and acting. From Elvis to Sting, one medium seems to undercut the other. But if they can be reconciled, then Roland Gift has the cool to bring it off. One wants to retain a little mystery as a . performer and steer clear of typecasting, especially along color lines. In fact, his father was black and his mother white, but further details of the family history are dear. The middle child in a family of five, Gift, 28, grew up in Hull, a small port city in the industrial north. "My father died when...
...addition, mainline religion has been undercut by some of its own cultural achievements. The churches persuaded people to embrace tolerance and inclusiveness, says Hartford Seminary's David Roozen, but in doing so lost their internal sense of identity. Similarly, liberal Protestant leaders encouraged antiauthority movements in the 1960s, only to find youths rejecting them as part of the despised Establishment...
...followed by "Down to London," which would also be perfect except for the eerie similarity between its Latin American piano figure and that of Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways." This becomes a tragic flaw; the combination of tamborine, piano, and Motown harmonica, which would otherwise be irresistable, is undercut by one's idle speculation as to how Jackson's lawyer will deal with the imminent plagiarism suit...