Word: pretexted
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Except story is not the end of this movie. It's a beginning, a pretext, for what is, finally, a brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism. The film has the bleached look of a carelessly shot videotape, with, occasionally, what Russell calls "very intense hits of color"--a Bart Simpson doll is one of them--burning through its low-contrast surface. This is how combat appears to us in the new technological age--no terrible beauty, just absurdity's flat, deadly record keeping...
While Chechen Islamic separatists ? who are behind the fighting in Dagestan ? have certainly resorted to terror attacks inside Russia on many occasions in the past, many Russian politicians fear that President Boris Yeltsin may use them as a pretext to claim emergency powers and hang on to power. "Faced with a corruption scandal that won?t simply go away, that scenario may be tempting for Yeltsin," says Quinn-Judge. "But there?s no guarantee that he could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces...
...fighting and has vowed to drive Islamic insurgents out of Dagestan within two weeks, Russian reinforcements pouring into the region amid intensified fighting Friday suggest a longer and more brutal conflict. Back in Moscow, there?s widespread speculation that President Boris Yeltsin will use the Dagestan fighting as a pretext to declare a state of emergency -? which would allow him to cling to power by canceling December?s parliamentary elections and next summer?s presidential poll. "It won?t necessarily happen, but it?s a very serious possibility," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He was on the verge...
...civil-liberties group wants federal legislation requiring all law-enforcement agencies to track racial data from traffic stops. Only a few police departments, including those in San Jose, Calif., and San Diego, now do so. The organization is also pushing for an end to so-called "pretext stops" as a crime-fighting tool and a ban on racial profiling in all federally funded drug-interdiction programs...
...wanted to accomplish in Kosovo, Milosevic may be preparing the ground for making some sort of compromise with NATO," says TIME Belgrade reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Since fighting the KLA was Belgrade's ostensible reason for sending its army into Kosovo in the first place, declaring victory gives Milosevic a pretext to begin withdrawing troops without appearing to be caving...