Word: flamed
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...passing waiter to light one of the open fires. It's slow to kindle so, at Andy's suggestion, G. removes a perfume spray from a display range of spa products and, holding a cigarette lighter in front of the nozzle, produces fragrant jets of flame. I pose these miscreants, fully dressed and shod, for a group photo in G.'s bath-cum-Jacuzzi. Not much smaller than the large swimming pool in the spa, it's one of many flourishes that distinguish the 33 bedrooms from each other and from the accommodation in lesser hotels. On the last...
...Brien, who comes from Victoria, has been traveling through central and Western Australia with partner Simon Wagstaffe in a four-wheel-drive vehicle towing a camper trailer. Escapees from city office jobs, for six months they've carted around wares (Wagstaffe peddles a flame-ignition kit called Light My Fire) to markets, trade shows and country fairs. "We wanted to see the country and find an affordable place to buy property and settle down," O'Brien says. "Instead of drawing on our savings, we thought it would be a way of paying our own way." The hawker's life...
...What about that, eh? I was f___in' waitin' for that. Gotta go for me f___in' tea; me f___in' missus is waitin' in the car." The walk back to the motel passes the grandeur of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral; between the rooftops come glimpses of the eternal flame in the memorial to hmas Sydney. It's 7:15 on a Wednesday night, and time for alcohol-inspired reflection on the nobility...
...captivating exhibition gives a sense of what drove Maar to that obsessive hoarding of memories; of the giddy, dangerous thrill of orbiting, touching?occasionally guiding?artistic genius in all its searing intensity. It was Maar's glorious tragedy, and our good fortune, that she flew so close to the flame...
...House in London. Its prevailing ethos will be: "If you have a lot of resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views about the near abroad could flame up. The West viewed Viktor Yushchenko's victory as the triumph of people power over a malign Soviet-style government; Moscow saw an anti-Russian plot by the cia acting through democracy-promoting ngos. Should Ukraine go further by applying to join nato, Russia could apply crippling economic sanctions, including...