Word: burn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvstead (Susan Levine), who has become the new love interest of Hedda's old flame Eilert Lovborg (Josh Frost), becomes one of the key victims of her wrath. In a revealing scene between the two, Hedda curls Thea's mousy locks around her fingers and snarls: "Maybe I will burn off your hair...
Crowley's five RBIs and Rowning's four-inning shutout performance helped the Crimson (4-1) burn Smith, 10-1, during a day when the thermometer read well below normal for ideal playing conditions...
...1960s," she says, "my generation marched for civil rights and to end the Viet Nam War. We were well educated, open, idealistic, progressive." Then, she adds, "my generation discovered drugs. I saw friends die from overdoses, go to jail for drug peddling or, if they were lucky, just burn out." Shannon finds it especially painful that millions of peace-loving, privileged young Americans provide the revenues that have allowed drug traffickers to subvert legitimate government in much of the hemisphere, a process described in this week's stories. "We seldom acknowledge this," she says. "We still talk about using drugs...
What does it mean? Some people, it appears, are programmed by their genes to store fat instead of burn it. Scientists speculate that this ability may be a vestige of early human history, when those who could live off their fat reserves were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that...
Next, we see the bodies with pitchforks in their backs: victims of the "dosey-doe" move. These couples survived early burn-out to suffer mid-semester changes of heart, shifts in sentiment, hoardings of hormones. Soon, their attentions wander. Conversations trail off into silence. Fidelity means insurance. Euphemisms often heard now: It will be good for us; it will be good for you; so how's your roommate...