Word: flamed
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...they are right. Once the fire has seized the convert--once the seed of conviction is planted at a circus-tent revival meeting or through a multi-cassette mail-order course in Christian fundamentalism--it burns, un-flickering, fueled by the comfort of Absolutes. A protecting barrier between the flame and the winds of thought, rationality, diversity, and complication, the Bible is the answer book. Right-wing conservatism--the Way. The Book--the Truth. The flame--the Light. Only one thing missing...
...turns savage with frightening speed, manipulating her husband with thinly disguised sexuality. But the unmitigated passion which drives her can go just as easily the other way, into fear and insanity, and she crumbles beautifully, back into the flapper and beyond into girlhood. Searing her hand on a candle flame, she tragically reminds us of an inner power that once tried to unsex her but never succeeded...
...defense stole four interceptions. Last season Elway gave up a total of three. This was the player that Stanford coach Paul Wiggin called a "flame thrower...like a Terry Bradshaw." Saturday night, however, the flame had never been lit for Elway, who failed to employ All-American senior flanker Ken Margerum...
...lines of sweat, not enough body odor to warrant mention. His writing is clean, disinfected. Everybody says his prose shines; as usual, everybody is right. But it's the comfortable shine of a well-oiled set of carpenter's tools, fresh from a whetstone. No dancing hot shine of flame, nc shine of the evening ahead playing off fender chrome...
...I.O.C. also voted last week to install Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch as its president when the eight-year term of Ireland's beleaguered Lord Killanin is extinguished along with the Moscow flame on Aug. 3. A former boxer who now prefers to swing at golf balls, Samaranch, 60, will resign this fall as his country's Ambassador to the Soviet Union to devote full time to the nonpaying position. Like most of his I.O.C. colleagues, the diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having...