Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shoulder butting across the partisan divide, even as it seemed to widen. Could they have been faking how far apart they really were to please their respective constituencies? Afterward, Lott didn't gloat. Daschle didn't go nuclear. Tom Harkin didn't pout. The Senators stampeded to the airport, heading home or to the Super Bowl in Miami. There, at least, the outcome was still...
Strange that something so alive now could have begun in a museum. In late 1997, Lauryn Hill was visiting Detroit to produce a song that she wrote for her childhood hero, Aretha Franklin. On the way to the airport, she stopped at the Motown Museum. The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5--these were the performers she was reared on. She could picture their 45s scattered across her bed. "It was incredible to me and really inspiring," says Hill. Now she was ready to push forward on her own solo album...
...city. The occasional finger of white African sunlight that pokes through the haze falls on piles of dead bodies. The soft sands of Lumley beach, which sits on the north edge of town, are blanketed with dead soldiers, and the tranquil bay that lies between downtown and the airport is an oily, grisly mess, teeming with floating bodies and body parts...
...college student, he asked the usual questions, including whether I was happy to be done with my exams. He blanched when I told him about our raw deal. Was I going to study at home, during the holidays? Unlikely, I answered. Yet inevitably on the way home from the airport I was thinking about the Warren Court and Walt Whitman, and not the joys of home-cooked food or New York City in Winter...
...dozen 14-ton assault vehicles, and then engaging in pitched battle -- albeit simulated -- on the grounds didn't jibe with the Presidio's more family-oriented mandate as a national park. Undaunted, the best and bravest are training their sights on another choice battleground -- San Francisco International Airport. Check in two hours in advance, fellas...