Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moguls are like teenagers: they want movies with big kicks and fast returns. That makes the slow-fuse payoff of the quieter people pictures anathema. "Normal thinking at the studios is if audiences aren't there the first weekend, they're not coming," says Gramercy's Russell Schwartz. "But our films have to be discovered. We live by word of mouth." And Oscar has the biggest mouth around. The day after the nominations were announced, the box office for Shine jumped 40% from the previous Wednesday...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Police and federal investigators now say that the explosion Wednesday morning in front of a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic a mile from the White House was not aimed at the center. According to police, the explosion occurred after a hotel worker picked up the fuse for a practice grenade from the street. Federal officials, already on top alert for a possible wave of violence on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, thought at first that the explosion must be connected to the adjacent clinic. Early reports said that the man carrying the device...
...music-savvy readers voted Odelay the Album of the Year; rival music magazine Spin selected Beck as Artist of the Year. Says Michael Greene, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences: "(Beck) crosses so many genres and creates so many emotions. He can be poppy; he can fuse rap and rock. He's a pretty remarkable...
...Community Divine New Order Government. On its Website you can learn about "Interuniversal Genetics," enroll in the "Starseed Schools of Melchizedek" and perhaps arrange a "personal transmission" with "Gabriel of Sedona." Gabriel, by the way, carries the endorsement of the "head administrator of our universe" (the two of them "fuse" once a month) and, moreover, is "the only morontia counselor/soul surgeon on Urantia (Earth) at his level of healing ability." (Accept no substitutes.) This Website also offers you the chance to pay money for sacred texts, learn about "Ascension Science," even explore the "Deo-atomic body" or "tron therapy." Godspeed...
...Security Council for ignoring Somalia while it obsessed about Yugoslavia. Though he boasts about the reforms he initiated, he moved too little and too late to satisfy U.S. demands for sharp staff reductions and a zero-growth budget. His detractors say Boutros-Ghali was also burdened with a short fuse, large ego and thin skin...