Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right now, however, she's lighting one last pipeful in a ritual as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony. She ignites a propane torch and holds the blue flame beneath the smudge of powder in her clear glass pipe. Crank is smoked differently than crack cocaine; it takes less heat and melts instantly (burning away the impurities, Alicia says). Once the drug vaporizes in a white cloud, Alicia inhales. She then repeats the process. The residues in the pipe, called frosties, are infinitely valuable to crankers, and Alicia keeps torching them until they're gone...
...knife. "This is his résumé," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "He knows how difficult it is to run for president from the chaotic House, so he needs to develop a track record of being the one true man among the scoundrels -- the keeper of the flame." Kasich's larger problem is with the political and economic tides; with the budget surplus estimated at $34 billion and counting, shrinking the government just doesn't seem as urgent as it used...
...likes to campaign more than he doesgoverning," Adams says. "This is a person wholikes to get near the flame. He likes to be nearthe edge. He is risk-prone...
...some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing to do," she told the critic loudly. "I loved this man. I still love this man, and you hurt him terribly." Bernard stood her ground, but unfortunately for the assembled press, it did not come...
Moody has the unusual talent of being able to describe a scene beautifully is slow motion with language that never gets boring; his description of Hex's high school flame's walk to his table is unforgettable...