Every conversation the friends had, at brunch or out shopping, amounted to a "Crossfire -like debate.
Kitty returns to California from New York to interview for a job on a "Crossfire -like Crossfire -like, after a long absencableatalkshoweled by afterht with her mother.
(Though, truth be told, unless they somehow got caught in the federal budget crossfire, I'd like to know why the lines at Einstein Bagels were the worst in the airport; 20 minutes after ordering, I actually had to board before they could toast my bagel. One should have absolutely no patience for the myth of private-vs.-public sector efficiency).
As it became tougher to learn much of any substance from programs like "Crossfire" on CNN, now defunct, "The West Wing" seemed to delve deeper into real issues like health care and education, as exemplified by the raw, one-hour live debate last fall between Matt Santos and Arnold Vinick.
Syed's as good as his last conversation, letting Christian shout all the bold truths while he stands in the crossfire with a face like a petrified cherub.
Some of the most Mercedes-influenced new car models are already on the market, like the Crossfire sports coupe; others are just arriving, like the Chrysler 300C, a burly sedan with an expansive front grille.
The bird, he said, was just like any poor citizen caught in the crossfire of contending ideological forces.
The Grillos, the jury had heard, had become "caught in the collateral crossfire" of a disintegrating relationship and had been "devoured like lambs" in a bitter dispute between the now-divorced couple.
And even songs that start out like ballads end up, sooner or later, as a danceable crossfire of horns, keyboards and percussion.
Like you, I sometimes feel as if I am caught in a crossfire of rhetoric.
