Word: blaze
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...asked for hip-hop.He delivers on this tacit demand with such future classics as “Rock On.” “I show pain in the manner/of Coltrane’s ‘Alabama’/Make ’em blaze they hammer/Real girls get down on the flo’ like David Banner/When I handle/my shit, I go bananas/Man, you walking where the animals live!” That’s just five seconds of hotness within a blazing three minutes and nineteen seconds of pure fire. This is the head-twisting, double...
...Harvard-owned house at 47-49 Banks St. in the early morning hours the day after Thanksgiving, claiming the life of one inhabitant and reducing the building to rubble. The building, which housed two Harvard graduate students and Cambridge resident Gladys Evans, 78, was consumed by an accidental blaze, according to Cambridge Fire Department Chief of Operations John Gialanis. He said the department plans to issue a formal report about the fire’s cause today. Evans, the building’s only inhabitant at the time, died in the fire. Her nieces arrived bearing Thanksgiving leftovers just...
...Allwood had an unusual role model in her own mother, who she says was the first woman doctor in El Salvador (her surname comes from an English grandfather). Allwood, too, would blaze a trail by becoming among the few women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would...
...Kaine, 47, and his opponent, Republican Jerry Kilgore, 44, held their election-night parties across the street from each other in downtown Richmond, with an Elton John concert two blocks away, creating mayhem in the normally sedate capital. Kilgore's bash, decorated with bunches of balloons in the hunters' blaze orange that was his campaign trademark, never got started. It was in a vast space, with no toes tapping to the toe-tapping country music. Across Fifth Street, Democrats roared as each update about the race was flashed on the Richmond stations' ticker running beneath prime-time entertainment programming projected...
...portrayed as a sort of reflection of Mike’s personal tragedies. His mother and father, who form a dysfunctional and unloving couple, have cast a shadow over his childhood, and the fall of the Twin Towers comes shortly after his parents’ death in a fiery blaze. Moreover, the Twin Towers collapse as Mike is losing the two pillars of his own life: his brother Lyle and his girlfriend Jane. It seems that McDonell is likening the events of 9/11 to Mike’s travails, which – though also tragic...