Word: flamed
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...visit to the Six Senses Spa, in the penthouse of the city's five-star Hotel Arts, will sweep your whole body along for the ride. According to director Janet Fernandez, its philosophy is: "To balance all five senses in order to release your sixth sense?your internal flame." To this end guests are welcomed before treatments in a chic, chandelier-lit waiting room with a glass of ginger tea and a ginger candy to purify the body and boost energy levels, before being led to the sauna?the best seat in the house. With one wall entirely made...
...theme for the games is "Passion Lives Here," so signs and logos for the game are dominated by red. The opening ceremony - held at 8 p.m. Torino time, and therefore six hours before it was shown on NBC on the East Coast ? used 122 makeup artists, 70 flame-thrower nozzles, 4,400 pounds of fireworks and 6,500 costumes. It was very Italian ? loud and somewhat chaotic, especially by comparison to the relatively sober 2002 winter games in Salt Lake, where a solemn ceremony began with the display of a tattered American flag recovered from the wreckage of the World...
...surrounding Alps make for picturesque snapshots and television coverage. Torino, best known for the mysterious linen shroud that remains locked away in a cathedral here, has turned into one big street festival and in the afternoon, police motorcades with sirens blazing accompanied the arriving torch runners. After the flame was passed on, big crowds surrounded the doused torch, and people posed for pictures of them all along the busy...
...Zealand wore menacing black. Team USA brought much of the crowd to its feet. The athletes entered under the five giant Olympic rings, which represent the five continents and rose through the early part of the ceremony and then took on their traditional colors in a burst of flame...
...DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, Scottish ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green...