Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high derrick that Occidental plans to build will bear little resemblance to 17 other rigs in Los Angeles. Replete with white stucco and red Mexican tile, it will be disguised as a Spanish bell tower. Still, opponents are circulating petitions for a ballot initiative to prohibit drilling within 1,000 feet of the coast...
...never resolved in the musical adaptation now at Ford's Theater in Washington. Vigorously staged, tuneful and robustly acted, this ambitious work circles outside the characters and never gives them a chance to look deep inside themselves, except in a pair of oblique, cryptic solo songs. Director David H. Bell has let a number of solecisms slip past, including a raunchy Monkey Song about the secret lustfulness of women that is entertaining but out of character for the men of a traveling revival show. Librettist John Bishop links the story's religious excesses too closely to the economic travails...
Finally, the man asked the teller to please ring his little bell so that he would know to proceed to his window, at which point the teller told him that the bell was broken. But anality defies pragmatism, and so the man left in a snit, muttering something about system failures and anarchy...
...occasion he shared information with AT&T as well, though AT&T claims the information was public and not particularly useful. When the GSA awarded the contracts last October, AT&T was assigned to build five of the switches, while the other seven were divided among four Baby Bells -- Pacific Telesis, Bell Atlantic, U S West and BellSouth...
What was in it for Soni? GSA probers allege that he accepted free entertainment from bidders who eventually won. Officials of Southern Bell, for example, reportedly regaled him five times at restaurants in Atlanta and Washington. But investigators are not convinced that a few free meals explain Soni's behavior. Some believe that since Soni seemed to leak information on an equal-opportunity basis, he may have been trying, in a perverse fashion, to save the Federal Government money by manipulating all of the potential contractors...