Word: flaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment below me screaming, then I heard a voice yelling, 'Are you okay?' " the stockbroker's assistant recalled. Shortly after a neighbor pulled her out of a smashed window into air filled with gas fumes, she heard three deafening explosions. Then she saw a "horrible, huge wall of flame." Before the long night was over, most of an adjacent block containing ten buildings was incinerated by gas-fed flames that shot 50 ft. into...
...Liaisons Dangerous is the tale of two aristocrats, Valmont and the Countess Juliette, who plot the seduction of several young women including Cecile Volanges and Madame de Tourvel. Cecile has a jovial middle-aged fiance, a source of some amusement as he bumbles about. She also has a young flame, Danceny. Valmont and Juliette each plan to seduce a member of the young couple while Valmont tackles, as an extra challenge, the pure Marianne. Juliette and Valmont are married in Vadim's version, as is Marianne, who has a young daughter, these facts make the levels of jealousy and scheming...
...Stones always encouraged a dynamic of dissipation -- "their satanic majesties" -- and loved flirting with the flame. That shadow Keith Richards talks about was always there, deeper and darker than with most bands. Mick was a dandy about his decadence; Keith was devout. One book about the Stones even insisted (over Richards' later bemused denials) that Richards had his blood washed, changed and purified...
...machine into a half roll and knew that he was mine. Automatically, I kicked the rudder to the left to get him at right angles, turned the gun-button to FIRE and let go in a 4- sec. burst . . . He seemed to hang motionless; then a jet of red flame shot upward, and he spun out of sight . . . My first emotion was one of satisfaction . . . He was dead, and I was alive; it could so easily have been the other way around...
...prototypical punk moment. It was loud, adventurous, untutored and self- destructive. Something may have been kindled that night, but it took 18 months to work it into a flame. Now the Pogues burn reckless and bright, working weird wonders on old Irish airs, giving errant folk melodies a strong bracing of rock. The new Pogues album has the kind of title that makes a sucker out of anyone who doesn't know the band; Peace and Love is full of spunk and sass, unreconstructed punk attitude hiding a hard social conscience. Chits will no longer be tossed...