Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spokesmen for the fire department and the University police said yesterday they do not know the cause of the blaze...
Past Harvard Pizza, across Mass Ave, by the Fogg. Divinity Avenue in a sprint, a good morning kiss for the rhino, through the Vanserg parking lot in a blaze...
When Schlesinger took over as Secretary of Defense in 1973, he worked overtime at becoming an absolute terror. At 6:15 in the morning he would blaze into his office in such a foul mood that his staff was afraid to speak to him. "He could melt the stars off the shoulders of a four-star general," recalls one former aide. There was an angle in his anger. Schlesinger wanted to dominate the entrenched bureaucracy of the Pentagon, which has defied the mastery of all but two or three of the eleven other Secretaries. He managed to start rebuilding...
...assumption seems to be that if it is funny and perverse, it escapes sexism. For example, one short consists of a long strip-tease worthy of New Orleans and Blaze Starr, but with a twist. Once the stripper is down to her G-string, she starts taking off her hair and limbs, until nothing is left but a breastless torso. Funny, maybe; sexist, definitely--which is to question why Off the Wall should have pretended otherwise...
...Lion in Winter is pure theater, verbally lush and crammed with dramatic peaks. Every scene builds to a stunning climax, as betrayals and counter-betrayals blaze into a crescendo of frustration and defeat. The play's stylized characterizations and heightened language looked like so much posturing and anachronism on the screen; but back on the stage, in the Leverett Old Library Theatre, they form the underpinnings of a first-rate production...