Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nailed to these seats, so that they can't stand up. One-way glass is to be installed in front of their pens, so that the cameras can't see them. It's true that with this plan, we won't be able to see Bobby Knight emit steam from his ears. (Knight, the glowering genius who cut Charles Barkley from the '84 Olympic tryouts, is the coach whose Indiana University team is right up there in the all-important tantrums- endured statistical category.) But as cartoon figures like Knight cease to be visible, their need to overact will diminish...
Denied her life's love and condemned to the serving life, Tita finds in cooking the steam of sorcery. When Pedro marries her sister Rosaura (Yareli Arizmendi) simply to be near Tita, she bakes a wedding cake that leaves the celebrators sick or spellbound. When Pedro dares to give her a bouquet of roses, she presses them ecstatically to her chest -- the scratches are as close as she can get to Pedro's caresses -- and then prepares a heady quail with rose-petal sauce. Her culinary witchcraft will affect many births, marriages and deaths. But they will not stanch...
With its emphasis on old-fashioned manners and clean fun, the country line is square dancing for the '90s, the perfect pastime for the chummy, cuddly, slightly corny Clinton years. The trend was already gathering steam when Billy Ray Cyrus' 1992 hit Achy Breaky Heart spawned a line dance called the Achy Breaky. Now new ones are being made up every day. Kirsten Bonn, a former ballerina who teaches line-dancing classes at Denim & Diamonds, estimates that there are more than a thousand variations...
...nearby to come crashing down, showering chunks of concrete onto commuters waiting on the platform. In the same moment, the 110-story Twin Towers swayed visibly as the force of the blast shuddered upward. Lobby windows exploded onto the plaza and marble slabs fell from the walls. As fractured steam pipes launched jets of hot mist into the air, the first victims stumbled out of the buildings, bloodied and in shock...
...Yalie Tod Cowen, the fun was in releasing steam...