Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Limousines squeeze through the alley and roll to a smooth stop. Orange camera lights flare. Flashes pop. Cameras roll. The lieutenant governor steps out onto the pavement and quickly disappears behind the huddle of attendants in blue uniforms and "Blues Brother" name tags, as impatient guests stand in a purgatorial line. Half an hour later, burly Blues Brother John shepherds us into single file. By this time, the guests are at each others' throats. A woman, standing nearby, elbows in front of me, turns around, and says, "I must be in front of you. Because, you know, one person...
...platters that seem to float above the crowd, held high by waiters who bustle unseen through the surrounding crush of people. It would be impossible, at this point, to fall, much less move anyplace, because a dense knot of bodies presses in from every direction. More TV camera lights flare up--Entertainment Tonight and CBS--and the room becomes one crowded, sweaty, hyperthermic, and increasingly drunk exercise in swirling claustrophobia...
...like the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers playing in late September after both teams have been eliminated from the playoffs: The fans will still turn out. Hostilities will still flare. People will still paint their bodies and run around half-naked in freezing weather...
Despite the flare-up back home, the Washington negotiators continued to plod along in relatively civil discussions. Israel charged that Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon, could stop Hizballah violence if it tried. The Palestinians decried Israel's attack on a refugee camp in north Lebanon that Jerusalem claims is a base for terrorism. Still, all parties have apparently invested too much in a year of negotiations to quit over what is a regular cycle of skirmishing in southern Lebanon...
...Lisbon Traviata. By Terrence McNally. Operatic passions flare in this scathinglyfunny, deeply moving drama about the wrenching breakup of a gay relationship in New York's Greenwich Village. Played out against the soaring arias of the rare Maria Callas recording that gives the play its title, The Lisbon Traviata exposes the hearts and lives of its four searching characters with wit, brilliance and passion. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln Str., Newton Highlands. Wednesdays at 2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays at 8 p.m. Fridays at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Sundays...