Word: albatross
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...involved, the war will soon be history, because both countries have the wherewithal to rein in the Iraqi militias in a matter of months. Bush would do well to hold limited talks with both countries or, better still, allow Britain and France to do so. With the Iraqi albatross hanging around his neck, Bush cannot properly deal with Iran, Syria or North Korea. Stephen O. Obajaja Lagos, Nigeria Cheney Gives No Ground I was chilled and appalled by vice President Dick Cheney's glib answers to Time's interview questions [Oct. 30]. His comments related to the debacle in Iraq...
...over time, the idea that the price of Telstra shares was a political albatross, or that the regulators would rig the game to the company's advantage, has been put to rest. The world has changed?for Telstra and its competitors, investors and Canberra. Voters have wised up. Australians have now lived through a decent cycle of asset-market turbulence (even though gross domestic product has been expanding for 15 years). Says one government adviser: "House prices are the key to how Australian voters feel about their wealth. Full stop." Among existing homeowners, only those who bought late...
...After moving to Sydney in 1971, Morley, too, shrank from view, moving away from commercial portraits toward home interiors for magazines; from faces to people-less landscapes. Morley has called the Keeler shot an albatross, and in the random pictures Annear has artfully assembled in the final room?an Indian child glimpsed through a bootmaker's doorway, a whirling carousel backlit by the sun, a garden shed that appears like Doctor Who's time machine in a misty Paris garden?Morley seeks to transcend the defining image, a kind of freedom this exhibition finally grants...
...talk about nuclear proliferation issues in 2004 and 2005. One of Beijing's concerns is that Kim's nuclear belligerence will encourage China's ancient rival Japan to increase the role of its military or seek nuclear weapons of its own. "The Chinese leadership considers North Korea an albatross," says Green, now at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...mold with their prophetic, dark parables about apocalypse, aliens and alienation. With its cutting-edge arrangements, spaced-out electronics and Orwellian edge, OK Computer tapped into the nebulous state of the union and anticipated the post-9/11 era of anxiety. It also burdened the band with the albatross of expectation. For Radiohead fans, the pride of seeing their favorite artists explode onto the global stage was tempered by a shudder of apprehension...