Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thurman puts it, "teach laypeople and rationalize their own departures from the traditional view. I did so for 15 years myself." For Thurman, "Euro-American Buddhism doesn't exist yet," nor can it do so until it can furnish the true motors of devotion and keepers of the flame, "ordained monks and nuns, supported in vows of celibacy and poverty, divorced from everyday life and supported by a community of lay members." Even if the majority of American Buddhism seems to be fleeing such an ideal, he remains convinced that especially within the Tibetan tradition there exists a promising community...
...personal life is equally fulfilling. She's in a thriving relationship with new flame James Wilder, 34, one of the ex-hunks from Melrose Place and her co-star in the yet unreleased film Nevada. She recently moved into his home in the Hollywood Hills, along with the two children she adopted with Stevenson (William True, soon to be 5, and Lillie Price, 3), and a menagerie of assorted cats, dogs and birds. "It's like Doctor Dolittle in the city," she says. "I can't believe a man would open his arms to this road show," she laughs...
...Fleet Street, as "the playboy" from "the House of Harrods." His only marriage, to former model Suzanne Gregard, ended after eight months in 1987. In the past decade he had been linked romantically, if usually briefly, to a lengthy list of beautiful and often famous women. A recent flame, model Kelly Fisher, added to the Dodi lore by holding a press conference in Los Angeles this summer to show off a sapphire ring that she said was an engagement ring and to charge that she had been jilted in favor of Diana. Fisher, who also used the press conference...
...WELCH Brought Olympic flame to Utah and then flagrantly flamed...
Sadly, the pulverizing novelty of sexual danger was quickly domesticated, as the star jumped into mainstream show business. Within a year of his flash flame, he had segued from being Elvis to doing Elvis, playing him on TV and in movies. By the '60s, he was his own parody, stunt double, postage stamp--the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, hack tunesmiths were still handing him drab variations on Don't Be Cruel. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of Blowin' in the Wind (from a Graceland basement tape) shows...