Word: plundered
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Today, though, it’s pure American comic existentialism, stealing a glance away from its navel to plunder decades of pop culture. References to weapons of mass destruction, The Matrix and Popeye abound among more serious moments of reflection...
...policy and platform-he has none yet-but is beloved among the country's movie-crazy masses, particularly the poor. He lacks the dissolute reputation of Estrada, however, enjoying a happy marriage to movie queen Susan Roces. If Estrada, who lives in a police camp awaiting trial for economic plunder and perjury, is let out to campaign for Poe, some analysts think Poe will be unbeatable come polling in May. "He's just an actor," sniffed Arroyo's Chief of Staff Rigoberto Tiglao last week. "He's a nothing." The next day, Tiglao changed his tune in a written statement...
...destitute farmers of central China, the allure of such plunder is hard to resist--but the reality of life as a tomb raider is less enticing. Feng, who asks to be identified only by his last name, recalls vividly the first time he descended into the crumbly earth of Henan province six years ago. In his village on the outskirts of Luoyang, robbing a tomb is similar to an initiation rite, and Feng, then 19, was filled with nervous excitement as he and a group of fellow raiders ambled into a local wheat field to see what they could...
...finally out of the bag. HALLE BERRY slinks into a strapping new ensemble this week when filming starts in Vancouver for Catwoman. The Oscar-winning actress plays the Felonious Feline (see also: Princess of Plunder, Mistress of Malevolence) from the Batman series, a role made famous by Eartha Kitt in the '60s TV show and reinvented by a neoprene-clad Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992. Berry's leather cat suit for the 2004 film is "very bare, very urban, very downtown," she says. Her character, Patience Price, is a scientist at a cosmetics company who transforms into Catwoman--or should...
...bear witness, the military has been free to launch what many Acehnese feel is the endgame for their people. Part of this includes the replacement of the province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that appears inevitable considering the lack of protest or even debate over their blood-soaked Aceh adventure...