Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's terribly still center is Margaret (Lena Headey, who was the maid in The Remains of the Day). She has recently been out to Egypt on a visit and, like so many travelers from her country, felt the heat of an exotic climate warm the dampness of her English soul, experiencing both emotional trauma and the hint of a religious vocation. This, together with the braying fatuity of her fiance, has placed her in a conflict that renders her almost mute. She would like to be a dutiful daughter, but the effort is -- quietly, of course -- costing...
...what was one to make of his contention that New York Times columnist William Safire and Senate Republican leader Bob Dole had cooked up a deal: Safire would "turn up the heat" on the Whitewater scandal if Dole would take a "partisan look" at the nominee? Inman says he heard that from two Senators, but hardly anyone in Washington believed there was any conspiracy. "I think he was given bad information," says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, a close friend. Others speculated that Inman had read implications of hostility into one of Dole's wisecracks. The admiral has never disclosed...
...thus especially dense) water flows underneath the Gulf Stream as it moves from the tropics to the North Atlantic. When this salty stream reaches the far north, it is forced to the surface as water above it is blown aside by the winds; it then discharges its tropical heat into the arctic air, cools off and sinks to the bottom, where it returns to the tropics to be heated again...
...while there is no reason to think the next full-fledged Ice Age is upon us, a shorter episode of frigid conditions could happen at any time. The last interglacial period was warmer than this one and also, arguably, more unstable. It is conceivable that the greenhouse effect could heat up the planet for a while but then trigger changes that could plunge the earth into a sudden chill. And for an idea of what a mini-Ice Age might be like, just imagine last week's cold wave lasting all winter, every winter -- for the next thousand years...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: How to Heat Up a Scandal...