Zaha's Evelyn Grace Academy is a consolation for the Aquatics Centre, and proof that her swooshing parametricism can work within tight budgets and design guidelines (is that Z-shape a touch of covert branding?).
Toby Maloney, an owner of another such bar, the Violet Hour in Chicago, once worked at a restaurant where the owners' purchase of a blender touched off a covert rebellion.
A guy may gently hit or punch you on the arm as a covert, "manly" way of getting to touch you without making it too obvious what his intention is.
A few minutes before his helicopter touched down in a covert military base just outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tommy Thompson reached for his secret weapon.
These days many television dramas touch on terrorism, torture and covert operations, but they mostly do so in deadly earnest — either with the semper fi patriotism of "The Unit" on CBS or concerns about the Patriot Act on "Law & Order" and "Heroes" on NBC.
Disclosures that the Central Intelligence Agency had used the company, which most people still call Blackwater, to help with a covert program to assassinate leaders of Al Qaeda have touched off a storm in Washington, with lawmakers demanding to know why this kind of work is being outsourced.
Then he offered this sanguine observation: "At least he's trying to stay in touch and be involved, albeit in a covert manner".
But the Soviet presence touched off a nationwide rebellion by Islamist fighters, who won extensive covert backing from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States and who were joined in their fight by foreign volunteers.
Common elements of successful international approaches include a covert nature, the use of a method to visually identify and highlight deficiencies in the cleaning of high touch objects (HTOs) and the provision of feedback and education before re-evaluation.
Attempted transformations of identity, the thwarting of covert desires, the sometimes troubling disconnect between private character and public persona -- all are handled with a fluid touch and a tremendous affection for the characters portrayed.
