Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that end, long ugly belches of flame lashed out from every direction, garishly illuminating the refugee hamlet and searing and scorching everything in their path. The shrieking refugees still inside their houses were incinerated. Many of those who had had time to get down into dogholes beneath the houses were asphyxiated. Spraying fire about in great whooshing arcs, the Viet Cong set everything afire: trees, fences, gardens, chickens, the careful piles of grain from the annual harvest. Huts that somehow survived the fiery holocaust were leveled with grenades. Then the hoses of fire were sprayed down inside the exposed burrows...
...single, blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued to the point of regretfulness during the love scene between Siegmund and his twin sister Sieglinde in Act I, later blared and crackled as Wotan and Fricka haggled about the implications...
Tanks & Jets. Thieu, with Ky following a respectful two paces behind, first lit a symbolic flame of freedom in a large urn, then mounted the red-carpeted steps to recite the oath of office. When he was finished, pretty Vietnamese girls in ao-dais released hundreds of colored balloons into the air. In his brief, plain-spoken inaugural address, Thieu told the South Vietnamese that now "my preoccupations are your preoccupations; I shall rely on your eyes to see more clearly and your concern to gain a better knowledge." He again offered to hold direct talks with Hanoi...
...standing outside the Seagram Building, was built at the Lippincott Environmental Arts fabrication plant in North Haven, Conn. Newman supervised each step of the process, had to draw a sloping line across the top of the inverted obelisk to show workmen exactly where to cut. Then the base was "flame cut"-i.e., burned with a cutting torch, in order to leave a grainy pattern of vertical lines...
...twisted paper at the end burned very fast at first. There was a little flame at the end. But when the fire got to the marijuana, it slowed down. The kid took a very deep drag, swallowed the smoke very hard. His face lit up. He threw out his arms and threw back his head. "Man, this is a groove...