Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disliked the script or the pay, a relatively meager $1 million. But most made it clear that they were frightened by the role. "There's a general feeling that homosexuality is a dangerous subject," says Front Runner Director Marshall W. Mason, who has made his name in the theater (Burn This, Fifth of July...
...Amato, the punching and ducking were rudimentary. Hands up, chin down. Accepting discipline was harder, and controlling emotion was hardest of all. "Fear is like fire," he never tired of saying. "It can cook for you. It can heat your house. Or it can burn it down." D'Amato's neck-bridging exercises enlarged Tyson's naturally thick stem to nearly 20 in., and the rest of him filled out in concrete blocks. Like every old trainer, D'Amato tried to instill a courtliness at the same time as he was installing the heavy machinery. "My opponent was game...
...diary of dashed love and stubborn hope set into layers of melody that will never let the memory loose. Her voice, bold and smoky, has the heft of Joan Armatrading's, a hint of the spiritual urgency of Van Morrison's and, all on her own, power to burn. Union, heard even for the first time, sounds eerie and immediately familiar too. Childs herself puts it perfectly in Dreamer: "You're the voice of a dream...
...interest in the novel fuel has been rekindled by news that the Soviets have conducted a successful test flight of a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet modified to burn a mixture of liquid hydrogen and natural gas. The three- engine jet, which lifted off near Moscow and flew for 21 minutes, was the first aircraft to use the fuel in takeoff. Says Senator Spark Matsunaga, a Hawaii Democrat and a leading advocate of a U.S. hydrogen-fuel research program: "It appears that the Soviets have stolen a technological march...
...those who burn easily, the promise of a magical elixir that prepares the skin for a maximum tan with minimum exposure is a tempting prospect -- and a potentially dangerous one. U.S. dermatologists dismiss most such preparations, called tan accelerators, as little more than harmless skin moisturizers. But there is sharp debate over the safety of a French-made lotion called Bergasol, which is available in Europe and will be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for approval...