Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still sings as if he has a gun pressed to his temple: if it's a love song, every line is a plea for life. If it is one of his high-wire rockers, the song is like a last attempt to go out in a blaze of manic glory...
...resources, lighting its cigars with $1,000 bills. In winter, visitors remark, the U.S. is always too warm indoors, and in summer always too cold; in a flawless little American parable, Richard Nixon used to turn up the White House air conditioning full blast and then start a cozy blaze in the fireplace...
...blaze came only hours after another boarding house fire, which killed nine persons in Connellsville...
...soft-shoe dances possess the style that Walter Mitty's dreams are made of. He looks astonishingly like Eddie Cantor, the show's original star, but his manner is endearingly cuddlesome, rather like Joel Grey's. Choreographer Dan Siretta's dance numbers blaze across the stage like prairie fires, and the smashing chorus girls are a bouquet of red, red roses...
...Worse, chimney drafts suck even more heat out of the house itself. Wood stoves, generally priced at $400 to $600, eliminate the waste by putting the fire in an airtight metal chamber that regulates the oxygen flow by means of an adjustable vent. This produces a hotter, slower-burning blaze than in a fireplace. More important, the stove throws its heat into the room instead of up the chimney...