Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world. As ever increasing numbers of couples crash through racial, ethnic and religious barriers to invent a life together, Americans are being forced to rethink and redefine themselves. For all the divisive talk of cultural separatism and resurgent ethnic pride, never before has a society struggled so hard to fuse such a jumble of traditions, beliefs and values...
...Life is Short: Pray Hard." One activity put it on posters without even bothering to make a "clever" adjustment--simply "Life is Short...Play Hard," followed by the organization's name. To the publicity directors of the offending organizations, here is a message in terms you will understand: "My fuse is short, don't try so hard." These posters only convince me that their creators have nothing to offer...
...screen, he radiates a dangerous intelligence -- a big brain with a short fuse -- that is so intense it's erotic. "There's an energy that is sexual and intellectual," says Joel Schumacher, director of The Client, "and it's a great combination." Andrew Davis, who directed Jones in The Package, Under Siege and The Fugitive, has heard him referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call...
When the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Jan and Roberta DeBoer, a printer and a homemaker, had no right to keep the baby they have tried to adopt for more than two years, it lit a long, scorching fuse on a time bomb. The DeBoers were given a month to turn her over to her biological parents in Iowa, Dan and Cara Schmidt. This afternoon they have 26 days left...
...America and around the world. If we don't have it, and historical windows open up to make social change, we'll find ourselves unprepared." His goal is to become an "organic intellectual" on the order of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the father of transcendentalism, "someone who tries to fuse the life of the mind with the public affairs of the nation, who tries to shape public opinion...