Word: dreadful
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...peace--echoed nearly as loudly as the blast itself. On Thursday President Clinton appeared in the Rose Garden and vowed to "find out who was responsible and hold them accountable." Though the U.S. may eventually launch military reprisals, the numbing familiarity of Clinton's statements betrayed a sense of dread about America's exposure to terrorist attacks and the country's apparent inability to prevent them. The Cole disaster ranks as the most deadly terrorist assault on U.S. forces since the 1996 bombing of the Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia--a crime for which the U.S. has been unable...
Working in an environment with neither walls nor doors is an experience many now endure or, like business author Walt Goodridge, remember with dread. Goodridge recalls his seven years in the World Trade Center as a civil engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. "We occupied the whole 73rd floor, more than 200 people in cloth-covered steel cubicles. Sitting, you were alone; standing, you could look directly into someone else's cube. I fixed my computer so passersby couldn't see it. But you could overhear everyone's phone conversations, and rumors spread quickly...
...There has always been a seriously dark side to John Hiatt's music; songs such as "Icy Blue Heart" or the sultry brooding of most of "Walk On," his vastly underrated 1995 release, are permeated with a sense of dread that his more humorous, upbeat material never entirely dispels. While it doesn't evoke the almost creepy atmospherics of those examples, "Crossing Muddy Waters" may be the most clear-eyed articulation to date of Hiatt's sense of reckoning. True to the wordplay of the title, the album is a bluesy, almost all-acoustic affair - like something Taj Mahal might...
Some of us fear heights. Some of us fear death. But do any of us fear being uncool? That incessant dread of suddenly being dismissed as irrelevant, that haunting possibility of becoming "domesticated" drives Madonna to be so desperately ambitious, impossibly brilliant and acutely self-aware. Madonna knows the impact of her own revolutionary spirit--the world has become incredibly small to her, if you think about it--and that has brought her both gargantuan fame and the stigma of arrogance. There is no question that Madonna has developed into somewhat of a pretentious personality. She clings to a smarmy...
...bleach.) I know the remedies for both conscious and unconscious choking, and how to self-administer the Heimlich maneuver (by leaning over the back of a chair). I know how to apply CPR. After a morning of vivid reminders of my mortality, the lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think, "Oh, my God, this bacon could congeal my arteries at any second, and have these...