Word: bolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...touch of evil already lurks in Harry's world. A wizard who took up the Dark Arts killed his parents, but could not kill Harry, who was left with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. This mark makes him instantly recognizeable in the wizard world...
...answer may lie in the origins of the phenomenon. Despite the publicity generated by the trading cards, the heart of Pokemon is a handheld game. Start by picking up a palm-size Nintendo Game Boy, insert the proper cartridge and switch it on. Soon, a creature with a lightning-bolt tail bounces through an animated sequence, pops a cute grin and yelps, "Pikachu!" You have met the most popular of the Pokemon, a creature--part cherub and part thunder god--that is the most famous mouse since Mickey and Mighty...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) reported a person walking on Harvard property carrying bolt-cutters. The subject was identified as a student who lost his bike lock...
...owner of baseball's Minnesota Twins--until 1960 the Washington Senators; in Minneapolis. His comments in 1978 on moving the team--which included the assertion that Washington's "black people...put up such a chant they'll scare you to death"--led future Hall of Famer Rod Carew to bolt for the California Angels the next year...
...script for A Man For All Seasons, the playwright reminds us that the purpose of the play is to "celebrate the man." Robert Bolt's work does so masterfully. Powerfully written and expressive, Bolt's presentation of Sir Thomas More's life before death stands on its own as a strikingly haunting and beautiful play. Without a doubt, it is something we should all experience. How could we not? We will leave the play feeling more insecure, yet confident in what it should mean to be humbly human. And now we can--this week, director Joseph Gfaller...