Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katia Gordeeva emerges from the elevator lobby in a hotel at Baltimore's Inner Harbor and comes toward you as if she's walking a plank. Another interview. Wonderful. More questions about the dark passage from Olympic glory to the depths of sorrow. Swell...
Astronomers have been aware for decades that very massive stars expire in huge explosions that can outshine a galaxy. But sunlike stars die with a lot less fuss; they swell, slowly frying close-in planets, then puff their outer layers into space to form enormous balls of gas. Finally, they shrink to dim, glowing embers. A quiet ending--or so everyone thought before the Hubble Space Telescope came along. New images released last week show that the process is more complex and violent than anyone believed. Supersonic jets of particles and dense clots of dust warp the glowing gas into...
There's little moral rooting interest here; the fun comes from expert actors spitting out the lurid rhythms of punk patter. You want affability fragging into menace? Tarantino can write it for you. Jackson and Fonda, especially, can deliver it with a swell sting...
They lined up outside stores all over the nation in late November for Sevens, Garth Brooks' first CD in two years. Then they took it home and heard a swell set of 14 tunes from the sweetly pudge-faced Oklahoman who has sold 62 million albums--country music's one bona fide superstar. Sevens sold about 800,000 copies the first week, and it's not just his bosses at Capitol Records who hope Brooks keeps moving the product. Country needs a hit. Country needs...something. Like a lonesome cowpoke in some nasal old lament, it feels the redneck blues...
According to a study published by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), hires of recent college graduates will swell by nearly 20 percent next year, with increases in starting salaries projected across the board...