Word: torching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That evening, about 3500 people, over one-half of the undergraduate population, took to the streets in a torch and candle-light procession that wound its way through campus and Harvard Square. A few hundred students spent the night in front of University Hall, and prevented a number of deans from entering the building the next morning. The protesters later dispersed without incident, and the University eventually reversed its bank-ban decision...
...extraordinary given its theme. Behind Jerry Herman's old-fashioned but tuneful score is a radical subject. La Cage aux Folles is a love story with a difference: it celebrates the romance of two middle-aged homosexual men, one of whom is a transvestite. Last year's Torch Song Trilogy, by Harvey Fierstein, was the first gay play to make it on Broadway, and La Cage, for which Fierstein wrote the book, seems almost certain to become the first successful gay musical. Broadway is out of the closet and has slammed the door behind...
After 3.5 million kilometers of space, a single kilometer on the ground might seem a bit tame. But last week Astronaut Sally Ride, 32, was in New York City to promote next summer's Olympic Torch Relay and the 1-km leg of the journey to be run in her name for the benefit of the Girls Clubs of America. Her schedule permitting, Ride may even show up to take a few jogging steps for womankind. Don't look back, John Glenn, someone may be gaining...
...they managing it? Consider their approach to what is only a small side issue, the traditional Olympic torch relay. Deluged with tens of thousands of requests to carry the torch, L.A.O.O.C. President Peter Ueberroth concluded that the flame could generate some national spirit and some local dollars for youth sports programs. So last week he announced that for a tax-deductible $3,000 donation, anyone can now purchase 1 km along the 50-state 19,000-km route. The money for the 10,000 km that are for sale will go not to the Games but to one of three...
...waving Pontiff as he sped by in his Popemobile. If John Paul could not visit the Poznan memorial, a crowd of several hundred people managed to avoid police blockades and rally by the twin crosses. A lonely yellow-and-white papal banner was left behind in the empty torch of an eternal flame that was extinguished soon after the military crackdown in December...