Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...water tower, a billboard, a stanchion in a football stadium--can serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam, PrimeCo's chief operating officer, a free-standing tower in an open field, like the field bordering my home, is the last thing his company wants to build...
...governmental law-enforcement organization known as the Millennium group. He has amassed enemies over his long career, and every time the camera turns to one of his co-workers or a friendly new neighbor attempting a chat, there is the sense that his haven could crack like a Pottery Barn picture frame...
...deputy mayor of New York City. It is the creation of Gary David Goldberg, who launched Fox to stardom as the most darling supply-sider of the '80s, Family Ties' Alex Keaton. On the new show Fox's Mike Flaherty is Alex with his own Pottery Barn-furnished apartment. Like Alex he is guided by no redeeming ideals or principles. Instead, Flaherty lives quite happily for the rush of weaving the lies and quarter truths that will mend his boss's innumerable gaffes. When Mayor Randall Winston (played by Barry Bostwick with an unfortunate excess of dimwittedness) slights...
...disaffected child (Anna Paquin), is moping around the farm, mourning her dead mother. Tom, Amy's distracted dad (Jeff Daniels), is in his workshop creating really strange metal sculptures--basically, if guiltily, ignoring his daughter. In the barn, though, a gaggle of orphaned goslings is beginning to hatch, and we all know what that means: the geese are in for some kind of trouble, father and daughter are in for some kind of bonding, and we're in for another trip down a slope--slippery with sentimental goo--that is all too familiar. And banal...
...1970s, but its composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, seems to have done all right. He's got a new musical too: Whistle Down the Wind, which opens in Washington in December and is due on Broadway next spring. No falling chandeliers--just some kids who find a stranger in the barn--but it will probably be a hit anyway...