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...dark, deserted sandlot behind the elementary school, I fumbled with a match, burning my fingers on the first try, dropping it on the second. I finally connected flame to fuse, trembling in anticipation of a blow-up in my face. BOOM. A flaming pink ball shot out. I could feel the explosive force as I clenched the "Thunder Buster" roman candle tube, and I began to aim thundering blasts of white, green and pink at the battalion of surrounding trees--my own sandlot Star Wars...
Science-Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif.: * Sometimes we need to fuse our lives again with those people who seem at times to be antagonists -- you young men especially, because it is hard for us men to profess our love. It is quite often very difficult for your fathers and for you. So for you young men, when the ceremony is over, I want you to run over to the old man. Grab him, hug him and kiss him and say, "Dad, I love you and I thank you for all the years." That's part...
Pippert says that the goal of his work at the Kennedy School this semester is "to fuse my background as a journalist with values in a complex age that go far beyond journalism...
Gorbachev, though seemingly invigorated by Thatcher's directness, nonetheless responded to her views bluntly. "It is beyond our understanding how one can heap praise on nuclear arms," he said. The Soviet leader dismissed nuclear deterrence as a "safety fuse attached to an explosive device capable of annihilating our civilization." Gorbachev said he saw "no serious obstacles" to an INF agreement with the U.S. Even so, he complained, the West seemed to be asking for a "whole new package of additional conditions and demands" that threatened to bog down U.S.-Soviet INF negotiations...
When Walter first sees lovely and demure Nadia--and it's only through a match light, since she's blown a fuse in her hotel room--he is, to say the least, pleased...