Word: horror
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...Brazil, the former coach of Real Madrid and the Dutch national team prescribed a punishing training regimen that would enable the Koreans to simply outlast greater soccer powers. Seasoned players like captain Hong who couldn't keep up with the rigorous practices were threatened with dismissal, much to the horror of team officials used to putting loyalty before talent...
...losing any sleep at all. The FBI and the CIA would sort out their problems; those who collectively missed the clues that might have led to the hijackers were "fine people who loved America"; and nothing, as Bush told the nation again last week, "could have prevented the horror of Sept...
...union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty of the place are so stark," says Edward Linenthal, the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, who visited Shanksville in December. "It reminds me of the extermination sites the Nazis built in such magnificently beautiful forests...
...King" from other biographies is that Anderson literally drew it out. For the most part the book has been rendered in very high-contrast black and white - a fascinating choice given the subject. When not cast in nearly complete shadow, characters look as though brightly lit from one direction, horror-movie style. Features get flattened, and more importantly, skin tone vanishes. For better or worse this makes it difficult to distinguish between characters, black or white. Arguably this lack of shading also counters the book's themes of moral shading. But then, just discussing the graphics for their rhetorical meaning...
...with the brazen declaration of summer—from the bikini wax horror stories and get-thin-for-summer diets to beach bargains and lifeguard love stories—comes what I think is the oddest parallel to my own skin-tone woes: the self-tan. There I was pooh-poohing the cosmetics industry for not caring enough about making or marketing the products I need to attain flawless, cover-girl appeal and the next thing I know, every model in every ad is rubbing her way to darker, warmer skin...