Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be different if the indignities of airport security served a self-evident lifesaving purpose. But the first thing the inquisitive traveler learns is that the X-ray machines that constitute the principal barrier between parking lot and planes can detect only teaspoons and hairpins and are utterly indifferent to the plastic devices favored by modern mass murderers. Why not buy machines that can actually detect bombs? Too expensive, the airlines say, as if airplanes were cheap. And of course nothing reveals the purely ceremonial nature of airport security like the long-standing rule against telling bomb-related jokes...
...going to run. I can't run any more, and if you run from a man older than you, you're in trouble."--34-year-old Hector Camacho, about the fighting style he'll use against 40-year-old Sugar Ray Leonard...
Because Smith works solely with natural light, this is at times quite literally the case. A gust of wind, background mists, a single ray of sunlight--images this natural don't wait for anyone...
...independent" companies are owned by media conglomerates: Miramax by the Walt Disney Co., Gramercy (which released Fargo) by Polygram, Fine Line (Shine) by Time Warner. October Films (Secrets & Lies) is partly financed by mighty Allen & Co., but despite rumors that it is open to a takeover bid, Bingham Ray vows to maintain autonomy. "We're at the peak of our game right now as a privately held, true independent," he says...
MEMPHIS: New technology may be able to determine whether James Earl Ray's rifle killed Martin Luther King Jr. If the Tennessee Court of Appeals agrees, a local judge?s order for new, more sophisticated ballistics tests may help reopen the investigation into the murder, and possibly bring the case before a jury. Because James Earl Ray confessed to the killing, he was never put on trial, not even when he recanted three days after his arrest and said that a shadowy band of conspirators associated with a man known as Raoul had orchestrated the assassination. While Ray's fingerprints...