Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the owners of the restaurant, Ta Chien is alive and living in Taiwan. He like hot, spicy food. That's the wole story, were not the mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs...
...Geraldo's devil special (being produced under the auspices of the entertainment division, not news). TV's new fascination with real-life crime, moreover, has the whiff of pandering. The correspondents on 60 Minutes have been called prosecutorial, but they at least come armed with sheaves of evidence. The hot-button journalists of The Reporters and other tabloid shows pursue their prey with little more than inflammatory narration and lurid "re- creations" of the crime. The appeal is to knee-jerk emotions, fears and fantasies of revenge...
...Savannah River layout, where discharges of reactor coolant emerge hot enough to boil a frog, a DOE official admits, "It's not too good for the fish around here either." The agency also concedes that a network of shallow aquifers under the vast acreage is contaminated with radioactive compounds. A deeper aquifer contains toxic, nonradioactive materials. The only argument: whether this supply is the source of drinking water for the surrounding area...
...daily lives that they take the red- and-white warning signs posted along Poplar Creek in stride. When area hunters bag a deer, they routinely run parts of it past a wildlife agent for radiation tests before serving it for dinner. The sight of coverall-clad workers ( chopping down "hot" trees growing in contaminated soil causes little concern...
...year 1984 wasn't a great one for George Orwell, and it wasn't so hot for the University's nine all-male final clubs...