Word: lighter
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...still lived with that pain every morning. I'd wake up and feel fine, and then I'd be looking at my books and I'd remember her, and then I'd be ruined." He, his girlfriend and a 12-year-old boy had once written in fire with lighter fluid on the sand at Baker Beach during the summer solstice--the same time and place where he held the first Burning Man. "It was right out of the cinema," he says of that day on the beach with his girlfriend. "I said to myself, 'Don't look...
Strength is paramount in Greco-Roman wrestling, which doesn't allow a competitor to take down an opponent by attacking his legs. That places a premium on lifts and throws. Such tactics are common in lighter weight classes, but Karelin--"King Kong" or "The Experiment" to fellow wrestlers--is the only super heavyweight with the strength to hoist a 290-lb. foe and fling him to the mat, in a maneuver the Russian calls a "reverse body lift." To execute it, Karelin locks his arms around the waist of an opponent, then lifts the wrestler like a sack of potatoes...
...melting could devastate the northern hemisphere's climate. A combination of melting ice, increased precipitation and runoff from melting glaciers on land could leave a layer of buoyant freshwater floating atop the denser salt water, at a point in the North Atlantic where water ordinarily cools and sinks. The lighter freshwater wouldn't sink, interrupting the vertical circulation at a crucial point in the cycling of heat through the ocean--as if you're grabbing a conveyor belt and slowing it down...
...most in Hollywood's special-makeup-effects field (just try to discern which ones are real and which are Baker-generated in Gorillas in the Mist). He also has a knack for working in comedy, which is rare among his peers and which has served him well in lighter fare, such as Harry and the Hendersons, two Batman movies and his work with Murphy. He has other makeup skills beyond the dreams of Max Factor: old age (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), space aliens (the first Star Wars and Men in Black), lycanthropes (Wolf and An American Werewolf...
...lighter side: Among other things, there will be a puppet procession, the Billionaires for Gore (see above) and a float including skateboarders...