Word: heatedly
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THIS WINDY, CINEMATIC SPY NOVEL RElies shamelessly on quick cuts and spectacular scenery, and never mind logic. Anthony Hyde's CHINA LAKE (Knopf; $22) takes its title from a secret Naval Intelligence station in the Mojave Desert, where a 25-year-old mystery -- Who gave the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile to the Soviets? -- has never been resolved. Hyde leads us lengthily through the murk of old lies, from California to a wave-swept cliffside in Scotland to another cliff in Wales to East Germany and back to the black depths of a lost gold mine in the Mojave. Quick, light...
...TURNED UP THE HEAT...
...Egyptian Antiquities Organization and the Getty Conservation Institute of Santa Monica, Calif., embarked on a $4 million restoration project. The dramatic results were unveiled last week. Although access to the tomb will be limited for two years to scientists, scholars and visiting dignitaries while the heat and humidity of the tomb are monitored, the joint E.A.O.-Getty effort has retrieved a priceless cultural heritage and, where the paintings are concerned, one of the finest artistic achievements of the Pharaonic...
...moment the big question is, Can Perot stand the heat necessary to get to the kitchen? Despite more than 20 years in the public eye (dating back to his unsuccessful 1969 crusade to send Christmas packages to American POWS in North Vietnam), Perot has never endured the media scrutiny that comes with a modern presidential campaign. Up to now, he has largely sculpted his own Horatio-Alger-hero-with-a-heart-of-gold image -- most notably by fostering On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett's breathless account of a Perot-sponsored 1979 private commando raid to free two employees trapped...
When Representative Peter A. Vellucci (D-Cambridge) announced he wouldn't seek re-election in the fall, he opened another contest which promise to heat up the Cambridge election scene this summer...