Word: blasts
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NASA's long ordeal is nearly over. The space shuttle has again shown it can blast astronauts into orbit on biblical smoke pillars. There is much to admire in the sight of the astronauts circling the earth in their splendid reusable spaceship, but there is also something disappointing. For the past two decades the American space program has been going mainly in circles, riding a splendid shuttle to nowhere. Once upon a time NASA launched men to the moon and sent robots across the solar system; there was even brave talk of expeditions to Mars. Now that the nightmare...
With its new Pavilion for Japanese Art, which opens to the public this week, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has risen from architectural hodgepodge to full-blast cacophony. Where but in Tinseltown could you see such an overlay of styles? First, the flaccid institutional moderne of the original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce...
UConn scored again early in the second half off a short corner blast from the top of the circle by Dara Fuchs...
Bush, in town to accept a Boston police union endorsement and blast Gov. Michael S. Dukakis on law and order issues, was sharing his views on capital punishment for drug kingpins, when Stimpson decided to share his views on the Iran-Contra scandal...
Tilden made her best saves late in the game--a diving deflection of a blast by freshman Robin Johnston with only five minutes left and a leaping grab on the ensuing corner kick...