Word: volcanoed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visitors get more than water for their tickets ($38 per adult during the peak May-October season). Seagaia also has the Bali Hai zone, where an artificial volcano explodes every 15 min. with a thundering boom and a plume of smoke. The inside of the volcano is open for viewing -- and leads all who dare enter into the Dragon Sanctuary, where a skeletal creature is enshrined in light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks...
When Ryan and Hanks finally get together, the twosome evokes the on-screen chemistry they had in "Joe Versus the Volcano." Which is to say: None. Watching these two actors together is about exciting as watching the interaction between Alka-Seltzer and water...
...Wade, searches obsessively for Mona, a woman he met years ago at a strip joint called the Fleurs d'X. She may be Sally or a daughter, or not. The city is Aeonopolis, and it could be San Francisco, much decayed, if San Francisco had a huge, smoking volcano where the Bay Bridge is. White-robed priests police thought and behavior and try to capture a graffiti artist who scrawls THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS on the same wall every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then...
...Wynn philosophy seems to work. His three-year-old, $730 million casino in Las Vegas, the Mirage, is the biggest moneymaker on the Strip, at least in part because patrons come to see the man-made volcano out front that erupts at night every 15 minutes, the sharks swimming behind the registration desk, the white tigers lounging below Roman columns in their glass cage and the dolphins in the seaquarium. His new Treasure Island casino, to open in October, will re-create at hourly intervals a cannon fight between two battleships and offer a permanent home to the elegant Cirque...
...remained for the final session completed proposals to pursue gravity and gas analysis forecasting. The deaths on the mountain also led them to call for more rigorous safety measures on volcanic sites -- and to demand an end to tourism at Galeras. Visitors are no longer permitted to approach the volcano...