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...maybe your relationship is nice, but not great. Maybe it's convenient to maintain, but not really worth all the aggravation. Maybe you're just a first-year--or even worse, an upperclass student--just lugging around an old high school flame like a tired old security blanket...
...City's Lincoln Center last year. (CBS has issued a recording of the performance.) He was at the podium last week for another Manhattan performance, which was to be reprised a few days later at Tanglewood and at the Chicago jazz festival. Sue Mingus, the composer's widow and flame keeper, is trying to schedule performances in Europe next spring...
...disturbing enough on its own, but it was just the latest incident in a string of fires, tanker spills and explosions that have rocked the Gulf Coast petrochemical strip from Texas to Louisiana. Last October, 23 employees died and 130 were injured when explosions sent 100-ft. walls of flame through a Phillips Petroleum plastics plant in nearby Pasadena. At the same plant on June 8, eight workers were hospitalized after a fire in a resin-producing unit. That same day explosions severely damaged the 886-ft. oil tanker Mega Borg, spewing a 30-mile-long slick off the Texas...
...time only to grab my ancient cat, Minnie, and the manuscript of a book just two weeks from completion. By the time I tried to jump into my car to drive away, walls of flame were jumping over the driveway, scorching my face and shrouding the house in an angry orange haze. The three of us leaped, pursued by flames, into a van, and started to race down the mountain road. Within 50 yards, we knew we could go no farther. Flames 70 feet high were cresting over the curve of the hill on one side, and on the other...
Only one other person was in view, a man in shorts with a water truck, standing alone in the road trying, through smarting eyes, to contain the flames with a hose. Alone, he aimed his hose at waves of flame that crashed like waves around us, now coming to a crest, and now, for a while, subsiding, until suddenly they were there again, leaping over a ridge and bearing down upon...