http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-05/entertainment/ca-42265_1_pink-floyd
Los Angeles Times
POP ALBUM REVIEW : Floyd Familiar, If Not in Pink
April 05, 1994 CHRIS WILLMAN
PINK FLOYD
"The Division Bell"
Columbia
** 1/2 "To martyr yourself to caution is not gonna help at all," sings David Gilmour; he's talking about the ways of love, and we know what he means. Had he only heeded his own words when it came to this, Pink Floyd's first album in seven years, the hallmark of which would have to be caution aplenty. (It's due in stores today.)
Ever since Gilmour reconvened the band in the wake of the acrimonious split with Roger Waters, Floyd has been busy going about the business of being Floyd--that is, re-creating best-remembered sonic elements without anything like the artistic leaps from album to album that characterized the band's '70s prime. Thus you get the slightly funky "What Do You Want From Me," which feels like "Have a Cigar" redux, or "Keep Talking," which employs "Another Brick"-like riffing, plus several "Shine On"-style instrumental passages.
That's a comfortingly wistful sound, and Gilmour's airy singing and economically bluesy guitar leads are perennially lovely, if drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright are by now dead weight. Gilmour's lyrics focus on the personal politics of separation with a mixture of sweet-seeming, regretful idealism and semantic clumsiness.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-05/news/mn-42362_1_air-support
Los Angeles Times
Clinton Pledges Air Support in Bosnia : Balkans: U.N. troops scheduled to enter a besieged Muslim enclave could count on U.S., the President says. They would act as shield against Serbs.
April 05, 1994 STANLEY MEISLER and DOYLE McMANUS TIMES STAFF WRITERS
WASHINGTON — President Clinton pledged NATO air support Monday for 800 Ukrainian peacekeeping troops that the United Nations is preparing to deploy in the besieged Muslim enclave of Gorazde in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The President's remarks, made in Cleveland, where he attended opening day of the American League baseball season, came as Lt. Gen. Michael Rose, U.N. commander in Bosnia, scheduled a visit to Gorazde on Wednesday to pave the way for the arrival of the Ukrainians, whose primary mission would be to act as a shield against attacks by Bosnian Serbs.
Rose will try to persuade the Serbs to let the peacekeeping troops cross their lines without interference.
"We're looking at what our options are there," Clinton said. "But it really depends, in part, on what the U.N. mission wants to do there. We are committed to providing air support to troops if they go in."
The authority for air support stems from Security Council resolutions calling on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to protect U.N. peacekeepers.
Despite Bosnian news reports of a massive Serbian offensive against Gorazde, American and U.N. officials said they doubt the fall of the largely Muslim town of 65,000 is imminent. And a U.N. official reported that the shelling of Gorazde had subsided in the last 24 hours.
A ham radio operator in Gorazde, however, insisted that some of the front lines southeast of the town were "literally in flames"; neither U.N. nor U.S. officials provided any evidence to confirm the ham radio operator's claims. But fighting in the area has been heavy, and the shelling reportedly has been intense.
State Department spokesman Mike McCurry said the Clinton Administration will consider using air power to stop the Serbs' shelling of civilian areas in Gorazde, just as NATO stopped the shelling of Sarajevo in February.
But the United States hopes to avoid any situation in which its air power would have the effect of supporting Bosnian government forces on the ground, in Gorazde or elsewhere, he said.
"We are not going to enter this war on behalf of one of the belligerents," he said. "Our use of air power is designed to accomplish very select objectives . . . that are designed ultimately to advance the peace process, not to further the position of one of the belligerents engaged in battle on the ground."
The comments by Clinton and McCurry were not viewed as inconsistent with the assertion by Secretary of Defense William J. Perry on Sunday that the United States would not use force to save Gorazde from falling to the Serbs.
Asked whether the Administration is worried that intervening in Gorazde might encourage the Bosnian government to mount offensives elsewhere in the mistaken belief that it has new Western support against the Serbs, McCurry indicated that the Administration has warned against such attacks.
"We're in very close contact with the Bosnian government," he said. "I think they know the type of diplomacy that we are pursuing at the moment. But I think we do need to be conscious that those steps we take are designed to encourage the peace process."
The four U.N. military observers now in Gorazde reportedly have spotted some Muslim military equipment within the town. The presence of such equipment, like the Serbian shelling, would violate year-old Security Council resolutions declaring Gorazde a U.N.-protected safe area.
Under U.N.-set conditions, the Muslims were required to withdraw all troops and military equipment from the safe areas, while the Serbs were ordered to stop their shelling.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/quotes
IMDb
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Quotes
[after the briefing]
Matthews: What's the matter Danny? Something you don't like?
McKnight: No Spectre gunships, daylight instead of night, late afternoon when they're all fucked up on Khat, only part of the city Aidid can mount a serious counter-attack on short notice...
[chuckles]
McKnight: What's not to like?
Harell: Life's imperfect.
McKnight: Yeah, for you two, circling above it at five hundred feet it's imperfect. Down in the street, it's unforgiving.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/quotes
IMDb
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Quotes
[after Hoot cuts in front of Blackburn in the line for food]
Blackburn: Hey man, there's a line.
"Hoot": I know.
Blackburn: And this isn't the back of it.
"Hoot": Yeah, I know.
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(Heinemann_text)/Chapter_III
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The Time Machine (Heinemann text)/Chapter III
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Chapter III.
and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly upon me. What might appear when that hazy curtain was altogether withdrawn? What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness—a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
'Already I saw other vast shapes—huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hill-side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm. I was seized with a panic fear. I turned frantically to the Time Machine, and strove hard to readjust it. As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm. The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost. Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness. The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses. I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop.
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