Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie summer promises more women who take their life -- and a gun -- in their own hands. Kathleen Turner will play a tough private eye in V.I. Warshawski. Even the budget-bustin' action-adventure Terminator 2 offers a strong female figure: Linda Hamilton is an embattled mother powerful enough to square off alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger...
...chance. The women eye him, eye the drop ahead of them, imagine a prison stretch, contemplate the last free choice available to them -- life or death -- and floor the accelerator, sailing off the cliff into the movie's concluding whiteout...
...indicating that magma has reached the surface. In addition, the physical swelling of mountain slopes, well documented at Mount St. Helens, is a sign of explosive potential. Laser-based devices can pick up minute bulges that are about the width of a nickel and still invisible to the naked eye. In Japan researchers have set up video cameras to monitor the shape and color of fumes at 19 of the country's most worrisome volcanoes...
...takes the edge off the equatorial sun. From nearby promontories, an observer can look upward to the cloud forests that cling to the mountainous rim of the Amazon basin, or down into the steamy lowland rain forests that extend thousands of miles to the east. As far as the eye can see and beyond, there are no villages, roads or towns. Lying below is the Manu, a 7,000-sq.-mi. area as choked with plant and animal life as it was before Europeans landed in the New World 500 years...
...quick cup of coffee"), I confess that I yielded to temptation. Instead of scrupulously working my way through a pile of new books as oversized as Cecil Fielder's strike zone, I frittered away my critical faculties watching real- life baseball on TV, even slighting sleep for the red-eye ESPN night games from the Coast. Eventually I found -- in extra innings, it is true -- seven baseball books that survived the toughest test of all: competing with the game itself. Each of these books is analogous to an opposite-field hitter; instead of trying to drive the ball...