Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Series. If it's poetry one wants, one may write a celebratory ode to a baseball field in New York City or San Diego, and the lights that blaze like a giant's necklace, and the stirrings of memory as the country stays young as long as possible into late October. For myself, I dream a scoreboard with Yankee numbers higher than other numbers, and a bunch of guys in pinstripes piling on their pitcher in the ninth, and a nutty voice on radio telling me the only news I wish to hear...
...before Congress hits the campaign trail, the global economy is still burning. And most of the world would prefer the House do its fiddling over something a little more proactive -- like giving the IMF the $18 billion it desperately needs to keep pouring water on the fast-spreading economic blaze. The Senate Republicans have already cleared the money, but in the House, GOP leaders still want to dictate firefighting terms to the international fund, calling for less secrecy, tougher lending terms and shorter repayment time for borrowing governments...
...fire-buffs, living around Boston is heaven. We know about the legendary fire captain who could extinguish a five-story blaze with solely the deck gun on his engine...
...Medici Venus in Large Yellow Nude, 1931, or the Louvre's Hermaphrodite in Siesta, 1900. Quite often you have to look for her; she is on the margin of the painting or sunk in the background, as though half glimpsed, less immediately present to the eye than the blaze of light on a tablecloth. Intimacy, to Bonnard, also meant distance...
...Song), reportedly pulled a gun on a magazine editor over a bad review of a rap band he's producing. "For some reason, sometimes hip-hop artists, they seem to feel like they can operate outside the rules of normalcy," said Jesse Washington, editor of the new magazine Blaze. Jean denied the allegation on MTV. "Wyclef Jean pulls no gun. Wyclef Jean plays guitars, and I have love for my family, respect for the artists that I roll with, and I respect the media very much." As persuasive as a loaded weapon at short range is, Washington said...