REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Like the volcano that erupted last week, this once obscure island nation seems to have awoken from centuries of quietude with a determination to spread its fallout all over Europe.
While her brother spoke before the phone-hacking scandal, Ms Murdoch had to address its fallout.
While the chattering classes debate whether Bruno/Baron Cohen is questioning or propagating homophobia, a teenager in Bradford can be fully expected to reap its fallout.
But the White House political apparatus, which in ordinary times would be pushing policy and public relations initiatives, has been consumed with monitoring the scandal and trying to contain its fallout.
But the artists at whom it was aimed -- postwar Americans working outside New York and Los Angeles -- continue to suffer from its fallout.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are also heavily invested in the Syrian war, but like the west, are doing little to deal with its fallout by welcoming refugees.
She'd thought then, honest to God, that what she'd said had constituted some kind of curse, and she waited for the future to come to her so that its fallout might be revealed.
What happened next continues to resonate, both to those who were there that day and to everyone touched by its fallout – a group so extensive that it will soon include most high school students in California.
Perhaps mainstream culture didn't yet have the vocabulary to confidently (or competently) discuss the incident and its fallout — to effectively parse its misogyny and its racism.
In so far as it has been able – which is quite far – Moscow has managed to park Ukraine and its fallout in a "regional" box, while continuing to behave as a global player.
