Word: vein
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...elected, Lynch hopes to serve the Ninth in the same vein, as he tells his supporters, “When I go to Congress, we all go to Congress...
...Iceman, they concluded, was shot from below. The arrow entered his body and paralyzed his arm. Though major organs were spared, major vessels were not. If an artery was severed, the hunter could have bled out in five minutes. If a vein was cut, he may have lingered for six frigid hours...
...less interested in the implied philosophical musings that come with the movie - and distinguished it from the mass of movies before or since - and on screen they suffer from lack of nourishment. (Wahlberg does manage a few good lines about how nutty this planet is, but the promising vein is under-tapped.) All he wants to do is go home. ("The Simpsons" already did this better, in a musical called "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want...
...Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were also there for their annual gabfest. Safely sequestered in a medieval palace a mile from the Piazza Alimonda, the issues they talked about--such as a possible world recession and global warming--were overshadowed by the mayhem. In much the same vein, few will remember Genoa's peaceful side. On Saturday a crowd estimated by the police to be 100,000 strong marched through the city. Its banners spoke for the poor, for workers' rights, for all the issues of those who oppose the way in which the world has become knitted together...
Ever since Lollapalooza capsized under the weight of its own mismanagement in 1997, the summer concert season has been dominated by increasingly narrow niche tours. Ozzfest, Warped, Lilith Fair, Guinness Fleadh, Smokin' Grooves and others have all mined a slim vein of music with varying degrees of financial success. While only Ozzfest and Warped are back this year, the concert industry trusts results over ideology; Moby and the multigenre festival tour both have to prove themselves viable. "The whole tour is an experiment," says Moby. "We've put this eclectic bill together, and I guess we'll see if people...