Word: sniping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dark” and “eerie” aspects, commenting on the vast, gray, sooty wasteland of a set—bare except for three yawning graves—and remarking on how mean and callous the lovers sound as they snipe and push each other around the stage. Save for the unanimous critical praise for the mechanical’s concluding performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” which prompted mad hooting and a standing ovation from the audience, Midsummer seems to strike viewers as a dark dream...
...should get out of Iraq as soon as the intelligent people who know and understand the situation decide the time is right. These are people who meet and discuss the situation daily, not casual observers who snipe and carp at every bombing and negative thing that occurs. Rod Spears Highlands Ranch, Colo...
...point of inedibility? None of Your Business is actually a magnificently dry social comedy, cunningly smuggled inside a meticulously researched, perfectly paced police procedural, like a virus packaged in a witty e-mail. As Sprague and Ballestrino worry away at a thin trail of clues, they banter and snipe at each other, stress about their expanding waistlines and diminishing love lives and generally behave like real human beings. It's an episode of Law & Order scripted by Candace Bushnell. And if that's not enough, for maximum degree of difficulty, Block supplies us with that rarest of creatures, a sympathetic...
...highway into Umphang was constructed a year later, but it took another decade before the first tourists arrived. "It cost 600 lives to build that road," says Sombat Panarong, former chief of Umphang's border police and the present owner of the Umphang Hill Resort. "The communists used to snipe at us from the jungle...
...that isn't necessarily your call. Fans along the Pearl River Delta are notoriously rigid?they want idols they can simultaneously worship and relate to. This limits individuality and restricts creative latitude. Besides, Chen is already dragging baggage. Some fans accuse her of riding her brother's coattails. Others snipe that, at 167 centimeters and 48 kilograms, she is overweight for a Canto artist. She combats the negative buzz by watching what she eats?"Apples are good," she says?and by trying to stop her brother from hyping her songs when he is making public appearances. More than anything...