Word: wildness
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...power but power. That must be done, as Saddam constitutes the No. 1 threat facing the U.S. While a terrorist network is horrible, a terrorist state like Saddam's is even worse, for it has all the assets of a state--billions of dollars in revenue, diplomatic immunity--which wild men in Afghan caves can't muster. Terrorist states can thrive without terrorist networks. But terrorist networks can barely exist without terrorist states. Deterrence no longer works to defeat them. Besides, the destructive power of weapons of mass destruction changes past calculations. The first smoking...
Welcome to Dunster House—“shout ensured.” Here you can find “nuts, rehoused.” A lexical resident may describe his home as “Us? Honest, rude.” And on wild weekends: “Hot nudes? Sure...
...notch. The typically short brunch menu lists a variety of mouth-watering options, including several omelettes, poached eggs and even brioche French toast (once and for all, I want to know: do the French just call it toast?). The omelettes, though, turn up bland despite tantalizing ingredients such as wild mushrooms and Gruyère, or Maine crab and crème fraîche. The omelettes are simply good, not fabulous, and contain neither enough of the promising ingredients from which they are made nor even enough salt and pepper to give them an appropriate kick. The poached eggs...
Despite their wild transatlantic popularity, the Strokes continue to uphold their curious anti-image: An unwashed Casablancas rambles incoherently onstage (“This is my buddy,” he said with his arm around the aforementioned giraffe. “I do whatever he tells me.”), the band kibbitzes around beer and cigarettes in their videos. But not only are they regular guys from a spectator’s distance, the Strokes’ appearance at the Lampoon last Wednesday proved them to be surprisingly accessible: The band members took time to chat and pose...
...DIED. ELLIS LARKINS, 79, jazz pianist best known as Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist on the albums Ella Sings Gershwin and Songs in a Mellow Mood; in Baltimore. Larkins, who began his career as a classical music child prodigy, brought to jazz an elegant, measured approach that contrasted with the wild exuberance of many of his contemporaries...