Word: smoldering
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...nurtured over the centuries. But they were in little evidence last week around Paris. Changing that will require the French to confront the widening disparities between those in the banlieues and the rest of the country. Until then, the rage and resentment inflaming the streets will surely continue to smolder...
...that respect and throughout the 2004 campaign, Bush was guided by his own definition of a winning formula. "People think during elections, 'What's in it for me?'" says communications director Dan Bartlett, and expanding democracy in Iraq, a place voters were watching smolder on the nightly news, was not high on their list. Yet "every time we'd have a speech and attempt to scale back the liberty section, he would get mad at us," Bartlett says. Sometimes the President would simply take his black Sharpie and write the word freedom between two paragraphs to prompt himself...
...group up in a Dublin warehouse to get a martial drum sound reminiscent of its early days and persuaded the Edge to "stop worrying about the fine line between White Stripes and Whitesnake"--or between art rock and arena rock--and just let loose. When the music started to smolder, Bono grabbed a microphone. "He was awful," says Lillywhite. "The song was all about gun control--an extension of his political beliefs. Bono doesn't try that kind of thing much anymore, but when he does, you can feel the ambivalence from the band, and so can he. They want...
...continually mocks his fussiness over his clothes and hair. (As for the ensuing rumors about his sexuality, however, Seacrest has taken pains to mention his girlfriend on air.) His limitations are his talent. Unlike Carson Daly, his closest analog in the next--Dick Clark sweepstakes, he has no Lothario smolder about him, no sense that he's as much of a player as the celebrities he interviews. "He gets into the guests the same way the fans do," says Robb Dalton, the 20th Television executive who signed Seacrest for On-Air. All this sends a cannily amiable message...
...United States will only serve to temporarily quell the fires that light La Paz and El Alto tonight. Until there is an open and public dialogue between indigenous Bolivians and those of European heritage, until Bolivian Indians have an investment in their own governing, those fires will only smolder until the next uprising. And Bolivia will burn again...