Word: placid
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...apparent that their relationship has been less than placid. They are on the phone several times a day and go over everything together from fabrics to budgets. But he says he can't always cope with her directness. "Sometimes I yell at her," he says. She doesn't yell back. Rather, she displays a coldness that Pilati tries to get past by "opening up and being more charming. I make fun of myself and make her laugh. She has a big sense of humor...
...poster is part of the campaign by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the October 21 parliamentary elections, and it has sparked a controversy that has shaken up Switzerland's usually placid politics. From street corners to the corridors of power, people are heatedly debating whether the poster incites racism or accurately reflects outrage over skyrocketing youth violence and other crimes perpetrated by some immigrants...
...years just after World War II, Hollywood produced a slew of nostalgic movies using the sing-along music of 40 years before, because the songs summoned a more placid and innocent age. If contemporary filmmakers are digging up the songs of the '60s, maybe it's because they remind us of a bolder, more vibrant time than our own. Kids actually did stuff then. Those who didn't go to war protested it. (The existence of a military draft helped.) They rebelled against their parents' values, political views and choice of recreational drugs - from martinis to marijuana. They marched...
Given Europe's placid, post-heroic mood, odds are that Merkel will end up with a bigger pile of chips in this game...
...moment of astonishment. "It's just amazing how quickly some of these tribes are flipping," he said. Amazing, indeed. Petraeus has presided over a remarkable turn of events in Iraq. The most recalcitrant areas of the country-the heartland of the Sunni insurgency-have suddenly become the most placid. The safest place for President George W. Bush to land when he visited Iraq on Labor Day was al-Asad air base in Anbar province; a year ago, a military-intelligence report said the province had been "lost" to the jihadis. Now AQI seems to have been kicked out of Anbar...