Word: unfold
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...preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, the film instead celebrates the joys of excess and consumption, perfectly illustrated through the analogy of a wedding...
...powerful tank-recovery vehicle. And with that, the Marines helped create the iconic moment that spread live around the world, when Saddam finally bowed before his people. His head was dragged through the streets in a noose, sparks flying, as the U.S. Commander in Chief watched it all unfold...
...goes without saying. But it is probably more productive to wonder why the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, understandably attracted to the flashy high-concept behind Chess (and mind you, it could have turned out great) didn’t step in to abort the venture before the debacle could unfold before a paying audience. Mainstage productions, though they rarely gel, should nonetheless be held to high standards, and a stalemate like Chess should probably have been forfeited in its early moves...
That's not how the theologians predicted the campaign would unfold. The theory was that the initial display of military might by U.S. warplanes and ground troops would "shock and awe" the Iraqi military and high-ranking officials into the conviction that resistance was futile. The despot's regime, Administration officials insisted, was too "brittle" to survive such an onslaught. Iraqi troops would defect en masse, they suggested. Intelligence and military officers had selected likely turncoats among the military's highest echelons. Just two days before the opening salvo, Richard Perle, a leading war booster on the Pentagon's Defense...
Watching the 24-hour war coverage on CNN is more reminiscent of watching Evan Marriott’s love life unfold on Joe Millionaire than of a war that has the potential to change the worldwide order. It is like watching the ultimate reality TV show, only this time, when people get voted off the island, they don’t come back. For the first time, the nation saw network-arranged interviews between mothers and sons who are about to join the front lines of battle, and taped conversations between new fathers leaving their young wives and children. Such...