Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...block and around the corner, there was asmaller sign at a buffet. Walking down the darkstairway, I was greeted by a hearty 30-year-oldwith spiky hair and a peach sweatshirt. He wouldhave to check with his brother first; it would be8 to 4, cashier work. He was so friendly, and thebrotherly business atmosphere was so appealing,that I felt bad that I wouldn't be calling him onMonday--though walking daily into a basement couldget depressing...
...recall much about the restaurants--except the alcohol. None of the five restaurants in the mall served any (which was one of my prerequisites), so we had to walk a block-and-a half to purchase a couple of six-packs of Molson Golden at Essex Liquors. Having accomplished my important task of the evening, I decided to disregard some of the more cosmopolitan tastes of my companions and opt for the most American-sounding of the restaurants, the Lucky...
There is a beauty to seeing something once, in a flash, in a blur, scarcely understood. Not the small print of the moment: just the block capitals -- a hand raised in victory, a body, perfectly straightened, entering the water. Lightning strikes just once, after all; it is the nature of an epiphany that it cannot be repeated...
...most serious stumbling block to a smooth shuttle operation is the simple fact that the U.S. space program, and thus the purpose of the shuttle itself, is still ill defined and adrift. Unless a strong consensus emerges for clear national priorities in space, the situation is unlikely to change. With the completion of the Discovery mission, NASA will doubtless argue that the shuttle is of crucial importance in building the proposed space station scheduled for the mid-1990s. Just last week the U.S. signed an agreement with eleven Western nations to undertake jointly the construction of the manned | outpost, which...
...producer Diane White of the Los Angeles Theater Center gets into her car, watched by two bulky parking-lot security guards, a rat scurries across the back alley toward the courthouse-like former bank building that houses the L.A.T.C. A block away, streetlights glint on the grimy marquee of a shuttered porno cinema. A few evenings before, L.A.T.C. artistic director Bill Bushnell was accosted by a gang of toughs as he left for an opening-night party, but he got away without incident. Although patrons rarely encounter trouble, it is little wonder that even Bushnell refers to the theater...