Word: roaringly
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...chaos theory, crabs at modern science for its narrow, intrusive brilliance and its broad lack of common sense. Yes, yes, the reader agrees without much enthusiasm. Thinking all the while: if you really could clone a tyrannosaur, wouldn't it be worth it, just to hear the thing roar...
When aspiring movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti visited the White House Oval Office two weeks ago, he boasted to President Bush that he would soon complete the cliff-hanging takeover of MGM/UA Communications and would make "the lion roar as it did in its heyday." This time he may not eat his words. After months of legal and financial maneuvers, Parretti's Pathe Communications is expected this week to wrap up the $1.3 billion acquisition of MGM/UA from financier Kirk Kerkorian...
...With a roar of well-tuned exhaust, I took off for a test drive to Hell and $ back. (That's Hell, Mich., 30 miles distant, a tiny town consisting of little more than a creek, a grocery store and a bar called the Dam Site Inn.) Conditioned by years of driving subpar American subcompacts, I was genuinely surprised to find almost nothing at fault with the car. Spectacular it is not, but it is very good. And it comes loaded with the thoughtful amenities that have allowed the Japanese to outclass American automakers in the small-car market...
...week of budget blustering that followed -- can serve as a lasting metaphor for national decline. Picture a government so broke and divided that patriotic tourists in Washington were caught between frustration (closed monuments) and farce (Congress in session). The public reaction was rage, an indiscriminate mad-as-hell roar. The politicians responded at first in typical fashion: posturing and finger pointing in an effort to apportion partisan blame...
...Roar...