Word: warped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seemed the film would be about the intricacies of the human mind, the ways in which memory can edit itself to protect us, how it can warp our perception of our lives to the extent that what is true for one person is considered delusional by those around her. The Forgotten teased me with echoes of Memento and The Sixth Sense and stirrings of Conspiracy Theory, with all the necessary ingredients for a philosophically sound, psychologically wrenching treatment of the division between reality and our experience of it. Still, although it begins on the right path, it quickly took...
...Gabriel Barkay, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Last week Barkay and other local archaeologists persuaded the Israeli High Court to temporarily bar the removal of any more debris. Israelis say that since the reconstruction, a bulge in the Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster, and a section of the eastern wall has begun to lean outward. "There's an immediate danger of collapse in the eastern and southern walls," says Shuka Dorfman, head of the Antiquities Authority. Awwad says a team of Jordanian experts is fixing the problem in the southern wall...
...latest arrivals join an estimated 5,200 already living in the South, and their ranks are expected to grow as conditions in their homeland worsen. But as Yoo testifies, stepping out of a totalitarian time warp and into a high-tech, hyper-competitive society can be the challenge of a lifetime. To help them assimilate, Seoul gives refugees a two-month-long "life-training" course?teaching such things as how to open a bank account?and a $23,000 settlement payment. They also get a monthly income supplement of up to $375 and help with housing...
...move done at "warp speed," as one senior administration official put it? The official line here at the NATO summit is that the Iraqis are eager to get going. "It improves his hand," says a senior administration official, referring to Allawi. But there's more than that. Allawi has been saying that he wants martial law. Now that he has his own government, he has the political cover to do it in a way he couldn't before. Now it will be his martial law, if he proceeds, not the Americans'. Of course, it'll be kids from Watts...
...small brick building that resembles what I imagine a bomb shelter might look like—only instead of survival gear, this building is filled with bright yellow nacho cheese sauce and hot dogs. Visiting the theater was a bit like traveling through a time warp: the whole place looks pretty much exactly as it’s looked for decades. (And the bathrooms look like they haven’t been cleaned in just as long.) Nonetheless, with all its flaws, the De Anza drive-in—decaying and dirty—stands as a bold testament...