Word: torching
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...engine exhaust could not have killed so many Jews at Treblinka. Hitler? A mass murderer, Buchanan admits in a 1977 piece, but a man of "great courage" and "a soldier's soldier." If it matters to you that you don't leave the impression that you are carrying a torch for the Fuhrer, that's a judgment you frame in such a way as to leave no doubt about your feelings. And if it doesn't matter to you? With all that as prelude, it may no longer be necessary for Buchanan to practice an explicit anti-Semitism. The name...
...They came to us with an idea, and that's it," Huynh said. "I didn't have to go around bearing a torch for Sigma Chi. They weren't involved at all--managerially or logistically...
...life--and at the same time illuminate our everynight dream life. On Broadway it was Rodgers and Hammerstein, abetted by Agnes de Mille, who led this movement. In Hollywood it was producer Arthur Freed's "unit" at MGM, staffed mainly by sophisticated refugees from the East that carried the torch--and found in Kelly the dancer and choreographer who could embody their convictions...
...months the whole world will be celebrating the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Before the torch is lit, however, Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary will be in the spotlight...
What follows is not supposed to be funny, but sure enough, the boyfriend whom Caroline jilted with a Dear John note when she fled town a quarter-century ago is still single, not too thick around the waist, and still carries the torch. He's also, natch, the prosecuting attorney who intends to jug Caroline's niece--who, it develops, is not really her niece, but ... Tension mounts. So do the old lovers. But the tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things...