Word: flamed
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...finally poked out the last pumpkin piece, slowly lifted the lantern in the air, and mouthed the single syllable—“LIFE”—that he had etched across in perfect block letters. The jack o’ lantern’s flame spontaneously burst forth from the wick as if lit by an invisible presence. With this simple gesture, Stollichnaya had combined the spirit of Halloween and Camp Sunshine. If there were a Guinness record for heart, he probably would have broken it. Deciding to burn the lantern at both ends, we returned...
...Miller's dealings with Libby; she had spent 85 days in jail before receiving written and oral permission from Libby to testify before the grand jury. The nearly 6,000-word Times account says that notes Miller turned over to the prosecutor contain Plame's name, misspelled as "Valerie Flame," in the same notebook she used to interview Libby, but as Miller wrote in an accompanying first-person piece in the Times, she told the grand jury she believed that information came from "another source, whom I could not recall." In her 3,500-word account of her grand jury...
...plot summary? Sure. Jared (Walker) and Sam (Alba) are a cute, free-diving couple who dream about discovering pirate ships full of gold near their home in the Bahamas. When Jared’s old friend Bryce (Scott Caan) and his latest flame Amanda (Ashley Scott) arrive for a visit, the crew have a fun time diving into the lime-green Caribbean waters...
...video is its absurd abstraction of the titular call-out for immolation. Lots and lots of people put their cigarette lighters up to show support for Kim’s flaunting of the judicial system, but there are also an alarming number of shots of people shooting flame-throwers. In my kind of Li’l Kim video, that would be a sexual metaphor. Here, it’s just silly. You’re silly, Li’l Kim! Go to jail! Do not pass go! Do make sexier videos...
Hanks can't say if he has still more space yarns in him after this. He may try science fiction--a historically high-stakes genre in which filmmakers either succeed brilliantly or flame out spectacularly. But in an era of shrunken space programs peddling small-bore dreams, there's something to be said for keeping the torch burning...