Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realizes she must help. The force of nature alone is not sufficient, even for her own freedom. Lifting her dress and tying it about her waist, she begins to run; moving as quickly as she can. With this effort, the muscles in her legs and torso begin to flame. This is work, labor at its most pure; this toiling to rid oneself of chains imposed by some other. Pleasure sharp and murderous, rages through her suddenly. Her motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle...
Slowly, However, we do gain compassion. The Daniel who narrates the book is a married Columbia graduate student, guilt-ridden, sick of his bourgeois complacency; his tensions surface in offbeat sexual acts and professional inertia. His sister feels she keeps the political flame of the Isaacsons alive by participating in Radcliffe radicalism; she acts with confident reflex, but she lacks a real family and when her brother and certain radical friends do not co-operate to form a revolutionary foundation with an Isaacson trust fund, she begins to crack. Her attempt at suicide in a Howard Johnson's wash room...
Shortly before Apollo 17 was to have been launched, many spectators were startled by a burst of flame that seemed to come prematurely from the base of the rocket. The countdown clocks suddenly stopped only 30 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. To the disappointment of the throng at the cape and the millions more watching over television, Launch Control announced curtly: "We have had a cut-off." Never before during the Apollo program had a countdown been halted so close to blast-off time...
...NASA technicians frantically traced the source of the trouble, rumors swept the cape that there had been an explosion in the first stage of the rocket. Actually, NASA explained later, the early burst of flame had been a burn-off of excess fuel: the pumps had continued to run briefly after the shutdown. The real problem, it turned out, was a defect in the Terminal Countdown Sequencer, which supervises the complex operations in the last minutes before a launch...
...candle flame, or rose...