Word: flare
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Ravers often wear loose, wide-legged jeans that flare out at the bottom. Knickknacks from childhood, like suckers, pacifiers and dolls, are common accessories. Dancers, sweating to the music all night, often carry bottles of water to battle dehydration, which can be aggravated by ecstasy. Attendees sometimes dress in layers so clothes can be stripped off if the going gets hot, and blue and green flexible glow sticks are popular. One sound you'll hear if the party's going right: a communal whoop of approval when the deejay starts riding a good groove. "The first rock-'n'-roll shows...
...director Martijn Hostetler '00 shows in his creation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, perhaps the two worlds are not so dramatically different after all. Set in a post-apocalyptic rave, the title characters are not dressed in the expected and traditional 17th-century garb but in silver flare bell-bottoms, platform shoes, halter tops and body glitter thanks to the costume designing expertise of Valerie de Charette '02. While I'm sure that the scandlous sex scenes, glow sticks, extensive homoeroticism and use of the words "duh!" and "whatever" were not in Shakespeare's original blueprint, the play still...
...economy has rolled merrily along, doing what supposedly could not be done. True, a sudden March flare-up in consumer prices--far larger than could be blamed on gas-pump inflation--indicated that labor costs may at last be starting a troublesome rise. Yet employment figures for the same month make it clear that the U.S. is a long way from running out of workers. Somewhere, somehow, employers found 416,000 people to add to payrolls in March, the most for any month in four years. Even after subtracting temporary Census hiring and adjusting for seasonal quirks, job gains continued...
...could even now be on a collision course with Earth. The sudden appearance of long-period comets, usually larger and with better than twice the impact velocity of asteroids, presents an even greater menace. Such objects (comet Hale-Bopp was one) are usually not spotted until they begin to flare somewhere out near the orbit of Jupiter or closer, only a few to 18 months before they pass Earth's orbit. That doesn't leave much time for defensive measures. Then, too, only a tiny fraction of the more numerous and smaller NEOs, some of them potential city killers...
...felt the flare of rage through the phone line, a palpable heat...