Word: dust
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...probably serves everyone right that this one is the pits. Stanley White (Mickey Rourke, an impish altar-boy type with what looks like chalk dust in his hair to make him look middle-aged) is another of Cimino's righteous madmen, a police captain brought in to clean up New York City's Chinatown. It is an uphill battle, against inscrutable thugs, a silky tong lord (John Lone), a TV reporter (the incompetent actress Ariane) and preposterous dialogue by Cimino and Oliver Stone. Soporific when it is not offensive, Year of the Dragon may some day engender a confessional memoir...
...point when he would get launched, and we would try to launch him. There were two different house-burning stories. I worked in a little bit of one in the book, the one where Great Grandpa came back from the Colorado gold flelds, is the legend, and the gold dust was all lost in the blaze...
Yurchenko's defection was not publicly acknowledged by Administration officials until late September. Privately, U.S. officials credited him with supplying information about the "spy dust" that Soviet secret police supposedly used to track Americans in Moscow. Yurchenko blew the whistle on Edward Lee Howard, the former CIA trainee who allegedly gave Moscow information about a U.S. agent in the Soviet Union. Howard, who had been fired by the agency in 1983, vanished two months ago in Santa Fe while under FBI surveillance; he is now believed to be in Moscow.* The CIA also leaked word that Yurchenko had solved...
Knox, one eye on the nervous mom, stands ready to throw a calf as soon as two twirling lariats snag it, front and back. When the ropes hit their mark, Knox dashes out, yanks the tail and upends the bawling animal. Before the dust can rise, Knox is on his knees, pinning a front leg back to immobilize the calf. Other cowpunchers burn the brand, vaccinate the animal and castrate it. No wasted motion, no unnecessary energy...
...Viewing will become increasingly difficult as the moon waxes (next full moon: Nov. 27), then will become better again early in December. But the comet, now traveling toward the sun at 70,000 m.p.h., will not show a noticeable tail until late in the month. Its appendage, consisting of dust and charged particles, could ultimately stretch some 70 million miles beyond the comet's nucleus. To witness the extended tail and see Halley's at its most spectacular, watchers will have to wait until next March and April, after the comet has swung around the sun and is making...