Word: flame
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Sweet deliverance! Finally a dance anyone can do -- a fast dance, a hot dance -- without looking like a candidate for a physical-rehabilitation class. A little flame and no shame. Slick stepping and sexy navigating, with no bruised knees. And no characters on the floor making jokes about the rhythmic capabilities of most native North Americans. "It's a very simple dance, not complicated," says Gloria Senor, who, with her husband, runs a dance band in Miami. "It's a two-step." It's the merengue. It's bliss...
Astronomers for decades have offered a persuasive argument to explain how stars are born: one of the huge, tenuous clouds of gas and dust that pervade the galaxy collapses under its own weight, heats up dramatically and bursts into nuclear flame. Until now though, this has been only a model. But in a report to be published in the Oct. 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers will announce that they finally have supporting evidence. Says Charles Lada, professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona: "We've detected what we believe to be the actual collapse...
...fact is that original intent, as Attorney General Meese uses it, simply melts when held up to the flame of history. Justice Sandra O'Connor reaffirmed the point not long ago in her concurrence barring Alabama's moment of silence in public schools: "It is unlikely that the (framers) anticipated the problems of interaction of church and state in the public schools," she wrote, for the simple reason that, in the 18th century, there was virtually no public education as we know...
Then there was Kovacs the video experimenter. In his hallucinatory world, illusion and reality were frequently confused. Paintings came to life or "leaked" into the real world; a man removed a candle from a table, and the flame remained suspended in midair. In his famous silent special, Kovacs played a Chaplinesque character named Eugene, who drew a lamp and then switched it on, and visited a library where sounds emanated from the books (when he opened Camille, a woman coughed). When he sat at a table and opened his lunch box, pieces of fruit rolled inexplicably off one end. Both...
...there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words were simple and heartfelt: "We are the keepers of the flame of liberty; we hold it high tonight for the world...