Word: blowingly
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Stone Cold finished Michaels off himself, butTyson--who recently split with his longtimemanager Don King--got the last licks innot-so-rehearsed blow that left Michaels"incapacitated" with ruptured disks--for real...
What had to come together to produce such waves? The first ingredient, says Collins, is a powerful storm. Its winds blow across the surface of the ocean, creating little wavelets that grow into larger and larger waves. Eventually, a swarm of waves four or more feet high may sweep out from a storm in the far-western Pacific, say, and head toward the coast of North America. The trouble is, not all 4-ft. waves are created equal. One may turn into a wimpy 4-ft. breaker when it nears the shore, while another may shoot up to a height...
...world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of human infringement on nature with the words he uses to describe the post-apocalyptic world: "The darkening sky is becoming a warm, dead Xerox and the winds blow forcefully as though aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million Bic lighters held up in the dark at some vast, cosmic Fleetwood Mac concert." Yet often his quirky comparisons go one step too far and cross over the line between the clever...
When the Academy announces this year's winners, I hope Cameron's epic wins its fair share of awards in cinematography and costume. The film clearly excelled in those areas. But it was not the year's best picture, and the Academy would strike a blow to imaginative filmmakers everywhere by honoring it as such...
HIGH STAKES: FEDS DEAL A BLOW TO ONLINE GAMBLING...