Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grape Vine." The irony of her singing songs which departed play lists long before she started tuning in radio airwaves makes her performance particularly refreshing. Everett Gibson, a Boston University junior with more muscles in his face than most people have in their entire body, delivers a sweaty, torrid show which also rekindles the Motown energy of the '60s. Sweet nostalgic moments come when Gibson assumes a falsetto and does two preteen Michael Jackson tunes which are at once hilarious and dazzling...
...health officials. People had little choice but to drink it anyway. Fresh fruit and vegetables were no longer available, flour was in short supply, and lines formed at dawn outside shops that were lucky enough to have any bread to sell. The siege came at the height of the torrid Mediterranean summer, increasing the general distress. When available at all, a $3 case of bottled water was selling for $10. The Palestinian guerrillas were less affected by the food shortage than the general population because they had built up their own supplies...
...average cost of making a Hollywood movie, which had doubled since 1977, actually declined this year (from $9.6 million to $9.4 million). Of the early summer hits, none ran up a tab of more than $20 million. Star Trek II, which has matched its predecessor's early torrid pace, was made for $11 million, one-fourth the cost of the original; the sequel returned its production cost to Paramount within ten days of release...
First color photos of a torrid surface stir envy in Houston
...wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like one of those sea scenes from Woolworth...