Word: extinguishing
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...them gets into his wife Carrie's (Joanna Miles) hair while she is cooking a birthday dinner. The bug gets a pretty good blaze going, and it is not long before Carrie is rushing around her California ranch-style house trying to extinguish herself, all the while looking as if she has just been hot-wired in a beauty shop. She expires, however, and Husband James goes even crazier. The fire bugs stun him with a show of their united intelligence and strength. Completely snapped, Parmiter tumbles into the fissure, the bugs besieging and barbecuing him relentlessly...
...concerns the romances of two couples-Burt Reynolds and, inevitably, Cybill Shepherd; Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete -as they sing and dance through some smoggy dream of the '30s. The couples do not sing very well, though, and in dancing resemble a troop of hikers trying to extinguish a campfire...
Potential Holocaust. That practice seems to contradict Smokey the Bear's highly publicized advice to extinguish all fires. But Smokey is no ecologist; he is not aware that natural-as opposed to man-made-fires are good for forests. They clear patches of land for new generations of trees. Far from depriving animals of food, the fires make way for a prodigious growth of succulent sprouts. Moreover, they eliminate accumulated deadwood and underbrush -the fuel for more dangerous holocausts. All in all, says Dick Riegelhuth, chief of resources management at Yosemite National Park in California: "It is ridiculous that...
...Conundrum were a conventional novel, it would end in this domestic triumph. But marriage did not extinguish Morris' trouble. Few readers are likely to understand exactly why, but the value and affection that Morris conveys about his family make clear what extraordinary pressure he must have felt to do what he finally did. For when the children were well along into their teens, so that Morris and Elizabeth felt that the change would not harm them, he began massive doses of estrogen and opened medical negotiations that led to surgery...
When the priest had closed his Bible and the assistant had walked up to the altar to extinguish the half-burnt candles, several women got up and went to the wooden tables in one of the aisles of the church and carefully lifted the small boxes and icons they had placed there on first entering. The icons were small dioramas and images, most of which depicted Jesus on a horse, a sword flashing in his hand. Invariably, Jesus was strikingly handsome, his long hair flowing around his proud face and fiery eyes...