Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charged with kidnapping Katie Beers, 10, and keeping her in an underground bunker for 16 days...
...control your hubris, at least control your panic. What did Canton hope to gain by phoning the editor of Variety and ranting about the show-business paper's negative review of Last Action Hero? Columbia executives, crazed with anxiety in their corporate bunker, were peeved when the Los Angeles Times published a free-lance writer's lighthearted, thinly sourced account of a preview screening that the studio plausibly insists never occurred. But did they have to throw an embarrassing, no-win tantrum? Unless the newspaper agreed to keep the reporter from mentioning Columbia Pictures ever again, the studio said...
Look for the tell-tale signs of gentrification-the too-freshly painted fire escapes and Volvos parked along the street as you leave the North End. Then cross the Charles River to the predominantly Irish Charlestown and the Bunker Hill Monument, a 220-floor obelisk that commemorates one of the first battles of the Revolutionary...
...David C. Bunker '93, immediate past-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, disagreed...
...foreman in a marble quarry that now lies in Muslim territory. He is quick-witted, hearty, good with his hands, and loves to laugh. He has rigged a church bell to an old electrical tower behind the ruined chalet the Serbs have transformed into a machine-gun bunker. "I ring it because it annoys the Muslims," he says. "They open fire when they hear it. We just laugh at them...