Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This view carries as little weight with most people as it deserves. Nevertheless, there are still people around who would like to burn a letter into the breast of every woman who behaves in what they judge to be an "improper" manner...
...later scenes Hedda's envious comments about Mrs. Elvsted's long hair ring oddly when directed at Gray, whose hair is short; the hapless Gray is forced to cry. "Let me go, let me go" at a Hedda who is supposedly grasping her by the hair and threatening to "burn it off," while Cohen barely touches her. Most incomprehensibly, Lovborg's all-important manuscript--surely not a tough prop to come by in a Harvard house--makes its appearance as a folded copy of the Boston Herald. (If intentional, the satire is sadly misdirected...
...electronic "sting" operations were used to trap the suspects. To prevent them from warning their friends, the raids were carefully coordinated. Indeed, news of the FBI strike was quickly flashed across the country through messages posted on computer bulletin boards, and some youngsters reportedly rushed to erase discs and burn files. Though no charges have been filed yet, the Government, by going after the microkids in a style more commonly used for archcriminals, risked turning the youngsters into instant heroes. Nevertheless, while such tamperings may be born of curiosity and high spirits, they have serious consequences and are increasingly dangerous...
...Franklin observed the phenomenon, owners of woodburning stoves have been trying to prevent all that expensive warmth from going up the chimney. Now a small Vermont company offers a modern solution: a fireplace-stove that uses a catalytic converter, similar to those found in emission-controlled cars, to re-burn the smoke and gases. The Shelburne Catalytic converter is 2 in. high, 8 in. in diameter and perforated like a honeycomb. It is coated with palladium, causing a chemical reaction that ignites the wood gases at 500° F (instead of the usual 1,000° F), converting them into...
...power of these legends is inescapable in Trevor's novel. Michael Collins, the semimythic leader of the Sinn Fein, appears as an occasional guest at the Quinton house, which the Black and Tans burn in 1918 after massacring Willie's father and sisters. The boy grows up to nurse an alcoholic mother, love an English cousin, avenge his father's murder and flee Ire-and. Characteristically, Trevor's women remain home to bear fevered witness and carry the seeds of further disaster...