Word: flamed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Femmy Arimula bent forward over the swell of her pregnant belly so that she could aim the blowtorch directly onto the small, silver lump. At first nothing happened, the flame blazed down in a blue and orange column. Then, suddenly, the silver surface began to peel away and gold glittered underneath. More and more of the silver coating retreated under the blue flame until only a pebble of pure gold remained. Femmy cut the gas off and coughed, something catching at the back of her throat. She had heard that burning mercury was dangerous, but she didn't believe...
...appears that the return of the great Mario Lemieux—the NHL Hall of Famer who came back from a three-and-a-half year retirement to score more points per game than anyone in the league—sparked a flame inside Jordan...
...Temptation Island--in which four unmarried couples tried to resist a bevy of hot singles--was, in most people's opinion, the show most likely to induce God to consume Earth with tongues of flame. Unless, for the most part, those people were under 35. The audience that made Island a hit grew up in an era of 50% divorce rates; for them, it offered more than campy, sexy entertainment. It was also a wholehearted, even corny, testament to making imperfect relationships work, despite slights, misunderstandings and the occasional striptease with a stranger. It couldn't have had heavier-handed...
...center of all things Tupac is his mother Afeni Shakur, 54, a former imprisoned Black Panther who has transformed herself into hard-nosed keeper of the flame, hiring advisers to watch over her son's legacy but calling the shots herself. After a court battle, Afeni won control of Tupac's master tapes, worth millions of dollars. (The court also ruled that Death Row--the label to which Tupac was signed at his death--is entitled to a cut of the proceeds from recordings he made under contract...
Keepers of the Flame The Fulan Gong situation TIME, FEBRUARY...