Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Public parks remain Kevorkian's preferred treatment centers. Adkins' suicide occurred in a rusting van parked in a campground; this time the two women were found dead in a cabin in the Bald Mountain recreation area, about 40 miles north of Detroit. Kevorkian himself called the police to report the fatalities. "The people were still hooked up to the machines when the sheriffs got there," said county sheriff sergeant Dale Romeo...
...story, is hollow and superficial. A Guyanese woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...
...Monday, Cleary called back, but Tomassoni was on his honeymoon at a lake cabin--which fortunately had a phone. The newlywed was shocked when the Harvard coach finally reached...
...enough. Thelma (Geena Davis) needs a respite from her traditionally male, that is to say, endlessly oinking, husband, and Louise (Susan Sarandon) is tired of waiting for her musician boyfriend to return from his one-night gigs in Ramada Inn cocktail lounges. A weekend at a friend's mountain cabin sounds just right...
...settlers, cavalrymen and trappers, and the American Indians -- noble at first, then seen as degenerate enemies of progress as the century went on and their resistance grew, and finally (by the 1890s) turning into doomed phantoms. Its landscapes are prodigious. Its stage material includes the Conestoga wagon, the simple cabin, the tepee, the isolated fort, the deep perspective V of the railroad -- and at the end, symbol of absolute victory over nature, the California sequoia with a road cut through its trunk...