Word: blasting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...left the impression that maybe this was the hardest thing he had ever done--and he still was taking weekends off. Even as McCain bounced along the back roads clearly having a blast, breaking rules, insulting voters and reporters and staff members with glee, Bush was doing half the work with twice the effort. Maybe this wasn't exactly what he signed on for, when all those delegations were flying down to Austin and begging him to be the savior of the party. Now he had to do the begging, explain why someone who brags that he never wanted...
...under assault. Late in January, the tiny, instrument-packed spacecraft was buffeted by an exceptionally powerful burst of particles spewed out by the sun. In the space-environment control room at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Boulder, Colo., alarms sounded. "All of a sudden, a blast wave of solar wind showed up at the ACE spacecraft," says NOAA's Joe Hirman, "as dense as any we've seen, and, bam, 30 minutes later the earth's magnetic field got hit hard...
...Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised by cultural critic Ken Smith in a droll, provocative study and accompanying video, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970 (both issued by Blast Books...
South Lebanon's explosive political-military cocktail is back on the front burner, with Israel, Syria and the Hezbollah militia all adding their own interests to the mix - and all standing close enough to get burned. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak came under mounting pressure Monday to either blast Hezbollah or unilaterally withdraw from Lebanon - or both - following a weekend attack by the Iran-backed guerrillas that killed the fifth Israeli soldier in two weeks...
...precocious 19 she was in Paris studying film, yet this San Francisco native took more than a decade to get working on her debut feature, Manny and Lo. "There's no way I could blast out of film school at 19 and tell someone, 'Hand me a million bucks and I'm going to make a work of genius,'" she says. "First I had to prove myself to myself. Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing." Krueger, now 39, toiled for indie gurus Jim Jarmusch and Abel Ferrara, then found salvation at the Sundance lab. "They start treating you like...